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Historical Event on 3/1/1992
Anant Gundopant Tendulkar, great journalist, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/31/1843 | Balwant Pandurang Kirloskar (Annasaheb), first musical playwright of Marathi, was born. |
| 8/17/1932 | V.S. Naipaul, great Indian writer, was born. |
| 8/2/1922 | Gangaprasad Birla, great industrialist, was born. |
| 9/6/1999 | Vyjayanthimala Bali, former Congress (I) MP, joins the BJP. |
| 9/5/1904 | Bhalchandra Pandharinath Bahirat, editor and expert of Saint literature, was born. |
| 10/5/1957 | Nehru becomes the first recipient of the key of Hiroshima Peace City. |
| 8/27/1604 | Guru Granth Sahib was established in the Golden Temple of Amritsar. |
| 12/25/1876 | Mohamad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, was born. |
| 8/27/1994 | Indian soldiers and Muslim militants clash in Kashmir. |
| 8/15/1947 | The Indian independence divided not only the country but its armed forces as well. These units came down and their equipment was transferred to the newly created Royal Pakistan Air Force. Thus, the principal components of the Royal Indian Air Force, during the partition, were nos. 3, 4, 7, 8 and 10 Squadrons with Tempest US, No. 2 Squadron with Spitfires and No. 12 Squadron with C-47s and No. 1 Air Observation Flight (AOF). The establishment of this AOF with AOP Auster 4s, 5s and 6s, coincided with independence. No. 6 Squadron, which had been in process of converting from Spitfires to C-47s at Drigh Road, had been stood down and its transports transferred to Pakistan. |
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