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Historical Event on 3/12/1992

Centenary celebrations held at Kasturba Hospital for Infections diseases. (CIVIC).

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/4/2000A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, inaugurates Samvidhan.com, a website about the Constitution. The site is a part of the Hindi portal, Webdunia.com.
7/23/1988Jahangir Khan, cricketer (4 Tests for India 1932-36), died.
7/23/1856Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak was born on July 23rd, 1856
10/5/1997Kiran Bedi, India's first woman police officer, was awarded the Joseph Beuys prize for her work in reforming the largest prison of the country.
10/24/1953Selection of the Dassault Ouragan fighter from France at this time reflected the decision to initiate diversification of supply sources. The first four of over 100 Ouragans, or 'Toofanis' as they were to become known in the IAF, reached Palam Airport from France and this type re-equipped Nos.8, 3 and 4 Squadrons in that order.
2/10/1995PM appoints Madhavrao Scindia as Human Resource Minister, Pranab Mukherjee as External Minister, Buta Singh as Civil Supplies, Ajit Singh as Food, and P. Chidambaram as Commerce Minister.
4/15/1997Interest rate on domestic term deposits brought down from 10 to nine per cent by RBI.
8/14/1968Week-long flood death toll reaches 1,000.
8/27/1859Dorabji Jamshetji Tata, great industrialist, was born.
5/16/1926Manik Varma, famous singer, was born.