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Historical Event on 10/21/1954
Government of India and France sign an agreement for the de-facto transfer of the French settlement of Pondicherry, Karaikal, Mahe to the Indian Union. The merger took place on November 1.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/1/1916	Mrs. Annie Besant in cooperation with Bal Gangadhar Tilak started the Home Rule League Movement with Dadabhai Naoroji as its President.
9/21/1995	Rumors that statues of the Hindu god Ganesh were drinking milk spread in New Delhi.
8/16/1933	Mahatma Gandhi goes on fast for being denied to continue the anti-untouchability propaganda.
9/20/1921	Pamanmal Hazari Punjabi, right-hand batsman (164 runs in five tests vs Pakistan in 1954-55), was born at Karachi.
5/9/1874	First horse-drawn tram car started running in Mumbai.
2/18/1996	Kenya's first full One Day International Cricket match at Cricket World Cup vs India. Tendulkar scored 127* and India won over Kenya.
7/5/1658	Aurangzeb arrested Murad.
1/6/1983	Indian National Congress lost for the first time in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka State Assembly Elections.
2/13/1998	India signs two agreements with the U.N. Development Fund for a $13.75-million grant for food security and environment support.
4/4/1905	More than 10,000 people are feared to have perished in an earthquake that hit the northeast Indian province of Lahore during the night. The town of Dharmsala was almost completely razed to the ground with the entire population rendered homeless and sleeping out in icy conditions. Five hundred Gurkha soldiers were buried alive when their stonebuilt barracks collapsed on them. The towns of Kangra and Palampur have also been leveled to the ground by the worst natural disaster measured at 8 on Ricter Scale. In Lahore, 70 Hindus were killed, Muslim inhabitants were parading in the streets, weeping and offering up prayers with ceremonial rites. Several British administrators and missionaries were known to have been killed or injured. At Simla, Lady Curzon, wife of the Viceroy, had a close escape from death when a chimney crashed into the room in which she was sleeping.

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Historical Event on 10/21/1954 Government of India and France sign an agreement for the de-facto transfer of the French settlement of Pondicherry, Karaikal, Mahe to the Indian Union. The merger took place on November 1.

Historical Event on 10/21/1954
Government of India and France sign an agreement for the de-facto transfer of the French settlement of Pondicherry, Karaikal, Mahe to the Indian Union. The merger took place on November 1.