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Historical Event on 12/3/1979
Dhyan Chand, famous master of Hockey and Padma Bhushan awardee, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/3/1994 | Bhushan Tiwari, famous Hindi film actor of yesteryears, died. |
| 11/18/1960 | Raghunath Chaudhary, famous natural poet of Assam, passed away. |
| 6/20/1946 | Gandhiji attends Working Committee meeting from 20-21 June. |
| 1/11/1966 | Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian Prime Minister (1964-66), passed away at Tashkent, U.S.S.R. at 1:32, age 61. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously. |
| 7/5/2000 | Rachita Mistry breaks P.T. Usha's long-standing record in 100m (11.39s) clocking 11.26s in the National circuit meet in Bangalore. |
| 11/1/1956 | Indian Government re-organizes the states according to linguistic principles and inaugurates second Five-Year Plan. The states declared were Madhya Pradesh, Punjab by merging Patiala & PEPSU, Mumbai was divided in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka. Union Territories namely Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshdeep Minikai and Amin Divi were approved. |
| 7/7/1997 | Armed Kuki militants shot dead 25 persons and injured five seriously in an attack on Paites village in Manipur. |
| 1/26/1997 | Mizoram becomes a dry state, the fourth, after Gujarat, AP and Haryana. |
| 5/13/1946 | Sarwate and Banerjee add 249 runs for the 10th wkt stand for Indians v Surrey. |
| 3/26/1938 | Laxminath Bezbarua, great littearateur of modern Assamia language, passed away. |
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