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Historical Event on 1/11/1958

Two lakh Indians in East Pakistan were rounded up and lodged in concentration camps.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/9/1996India wins India-Pakistan World Cup Quater Final cricket match in Bangalore (Wills World Cup). This was the last international match played by Javed Miandad.
8/30/1983Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1B) launched. This was also a multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite, which served for more than its design life of seven years. It was launched by a US Space Shuttle.
4/8/1950Nehru and Ali Khan sign the Indo-Pakistani Pact.
3/4/1879Bethune' College of Calcutta was established as the pioneer of women s college education in India.
9/25/1936Juliet Prowse, actress (Who Killed Teddy Bear) and dancer, was born in Bombay, India.
12/11/1926Kamala Kant Pandey was born at Varanasi. He was the first Indian agriculture graduate to win the London Exhibition Scholarship. He was elected fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1966. In 1975, he made the discovery of a ""revolutionary technique in plant breeding
10/9/1946Jinnah's 9-point demands conveyed to Congress.
4/23/1968Bade Gulam Ali Khan, famous ghazal singer, passed away.
2/10/1999P. Gopi Chand (A.P.) and Aparna Popat (Karnataka) won the men's and women's singles titles respectively in the National badminton championship in Delhi.
9/13/1965Pakistanis bomb Bombay.