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Historical Event on 11/19/1961

World Council of Churches convened their third assembly at New Delhi during which the International Missionary Council and its work was integrated into the larger ecumenical group.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/3/1997Senior Officials Meeting of Indian Ocean Rim (IOR) countries begins in Mauritius.
2/7/1922Britain threatens crackdown in India to combat Gandhi's civil disobedience campaign.
3/6/1971Test debut of Sunil Gavaskar vs West Indies at Port-of-Spain.
6/5/1966Indian rupee devalued by 36.5 percent.
11/9/1877Muhammad Iqbal, Urdu poet, was born in Sialkot (now in Pakistan).
8/12/1952Social Welfare Board inaugurated in the Parliament.
2/4/1948Rakeshchandra Satchidananda Shukla, cricket leg-spinner (1 Test India v Sri Lanka 1982), was born in Kanpur.
2/22/1905Purushotamsing Bajaj, industrialist and social worker, was born at Shikarpur (Sind).
4/6/1934Nilkanth Yashwant Khadilkar, editor of Marathi daily newspaper, was born.
5/17/1949India decided with only one dissent vote to remain within the Commonwealth of Nations.