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Historical Event on 12/6/1987
MiG-29, re-christened `Baaz', inducted into the Indian Air Force.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/3/2000 | A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, accuses Pakistan for the hijack of an Indian Airlines aircraft. (The crisis ended on Dec. 31 last with the Vajpayee Government agreeing to free three terrorists in exchange for the passengers). |
| 3/23/1947 | Lord Mountbatten was sent as a Viceroy to India who was designated to free India. |
| 7/6/1992 | R. Janakiraman Committee estimates involvement of Rs. 3543 crore in the security scam. |
| 1/4/1932 | Mahatma Gandhi and other members of his All-India National Congress are back in jail again. After the collapse of the London conference, British authorities cracked down even harder on Gandhi and his followers, and the Mahatma urged Indians to increase their acts of civil disobedience. ""Wake up from sleep,"" Gandhi said as he ordered a boycott of British goods. ""Discard foreign cloth. Discard narcotics. Discard violence. Defy all orders calculated to crush the national spirit."" The government declared Gandhi's Congress an illegal organization. Under new laws, even peaceful picketing is illegal. The Congress party responded to the crackdown by recruiting more followers and striking more plants. |
| 1/28/2000 | Indian junior cricket team wins the Youth cricket World Cup. |
| 6/3/1895 | Kavalam Madhava Panikkar, historian and Indian diplomat (Asia & Western Dominance), was born. |
| 5/23/1998 | L. K. Advani, Home Minister, is to look after J&K affairs. |
| 7/16/1996 | The four basin states of Narmada valley - Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra - reach agreement to raise the height of Sardar Sarovar dam in Gujarat to 436' after which hydrological studies will be done for 5 years to decide whether the height should be raised to the awarded 455'. |
| 12/6/1995 | Prabhakar Barve,painter of international fame, passed away. |
| 2/10/1846 | British forces under Hugh Gough defeated Sikhs in the Battle of Sobrahan in India. |
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