1996 Event Goa upset Karnataka to win their 1st Ranji Cricket Trophy game ever 1961 Event India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao and Diu 1961 Event India seizes Goa and 2 other Portuguese colonies 1667 Event Aru Palakka's occupies Makassar (Goa) 1666 Death Pieter de Bitter, Dutch Admiral (Colombo, Goa), dies 1616 Death Diogo do Couto, Portuguese historian/archivist of Goa, dies at 74
