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Historical Event on 1/1/1956
No. 20 Squadron, Indian Air Force's first jet squadron equipped with Vampires, was formed and christened 'The Lightnings'.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/1/1956 | Guru Arjun Dev, Sikh Guru, was born. |
| 8/6/1992 | A 30-member JPC constituted to probe the security scam. |
| 3/2/1949 | Sarojini Naidu, ""Nightingale of India"", freedom fighter, social worker and patriot, passed away when she was the Governor of Uttar Pradesh. She also holds a place of pride among the women freedom fighters of India. She presided over the Kanpur session of Indian National Congress. She took active part in Salt Satyagraha and represented Indian women in Round Table Conference, London, 1931. |
| 7/20/1957 | India's biggest sheet-glass manufacturing factory formally opened in Hazaribagh, Bihar. |
| 11/3/1992 | Premnath, hero and villan of Hindi film industry, passed away. |
| 3/16/1912 | Gandhiji commends Gokhale's attempts for abolition of indenture system. |
| 5/5/1947 | Gandhiji denies in an interview that communal division of India is inevitable. |
| 3/25/1990 | Lakshadweep Council elections. |
| 6/16/1934 | M. Muthuraman, noted Hindi writer and professor, was born at Dindigul in Madurai (Tamil Nadu). |
| 2/14/1989 | Supreme Court orders Union Carbide Coporation of USA and Union Carbide India Limited to pay $470 millions (about Rs. 710 crores) in full and final settlement of all claims out of the Bhopal gas Disaster Litigation tragedy of 1985. |
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