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Historical Event on 1/12/1992

Punjab election set for February 19.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/10/1887Govind Ballabh Pant was born in village Khunt, Almora District, U.P. He served eight years as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He was as outstanding parliamentary figure of his days. He was awarded with Bharat Ratna in 1959.
7/10/1965First NCC (National Cadet Corps) College for training girls started at Gwalior.
8/25/2000Veerappan seeks release of 121 prisoners, including 51 booked under TADA at the Mysore prison and compensation to victims of STF excesses 
6/4/1902Richard Allen, India, field hockey goal tender (Olympic-gold-1928), was born.
3/25/1927Leslie Claudius, India field hockey (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56), was born.
11/1/1973Lakshdeep Minikai and Amin Divi were renamed as Lakshadweep, and Masker (Mysore) state renamed as Karnataka.
7/31/1988Air Chief Marshal D A La Fontaine PVSM, AVSM, VM. retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command.
1/12/1993Ramakanth Rath, well-known Oriya poet, gets the Saraswathi Samman of Rs.3 lakh.
3/29/1942Britain offered dominion status to India after the war if it cooperated now.
6/5/1996Kubernath Rai, well known writer, passed away.