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Historical Event on 12/1/1991

Stone laid for the Sanskrit University at Kaladi, the birthplace of Adi Sankara.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/25/1984Indian Army withdraws from the Golden Temple; repair of Akal Takht complete.
4/21/1994Malayalam sweeps national film awards. Mammootty, Shobhana best actor and actress; T.V. Chandran best director; Buddadeb Das Gupta's Bengali 'Charachar' adjudged best film.
3/21/1973Yashwant Ramkrishna Date, great Marathi dictionary creator, passed away.
6/29/1909Pandit Motilal, social reformer and freedom fighter, was born.
1/12/1924Gandhiji was operated on for appendicitis in Sassoon Hospital, Pune.
2/12/194614 killed in Calcutta riots; Muslim leader Jinnah threatens civil war.
10/27/1947Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh's accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting the first Sikhs from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir.
9/20/1932Gandhiji commences ""fast unto death"" (hunger strike) in Poona prison to secure abolition of separate electorates for Harijans and untouchables.
8/28/1997Jain Commission, chaired by Justice M.C. Jain, submits interim report on Rajiv Gandhi assassination.
8/10/2000Parliament approves the Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Bill to create a hilly state of Uttaranchal.