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Historical Event on 12/1/1960
Air Marshal Aspy Merwan Engineer DFC became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/07/1964.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/10/1999 | Congress-NCP talks still on forming a Government in Maharashtra. |
| 7/1/1997 | Over 23,000 blowdowns completed in 1.2 m tunnel. |
| 9/24/1999 | India's Krishnan Sasikiran and China's Wang Yu bagged the boys' and girl's titles respectively in the Asian Junior Chess championship in Vung Tau City, Vietnam. |
| 11/10/1990 | Two Burmese youth hijack a Thai Airlines Airbus with 221 passengers on board to Calcutta. |
| 9/27/1995 | Cellular phone service operates for the first time in Delhi. |
| 5/1/1908 | Praful Chaki committed suicide after he threw a bomb on Judge Kingsford of Mujaffarpur, killing two inocent women. |
| 5/7/1908 | Sudhabala alias Ermaline was born in Bombay. She was a film actress. Her first film was 'Hothal Padmini' (1925). Some of her films are Kicks of Kismet, Tained Virtue, Red Signal, Wise Fool, Hoor-E-Bagdad. |
| 8/12/1868 | Frederick JNT Lord Chelmsford, Viceroy of British-India (1916-21), was born. |
| 5/13/1962 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1884-1963) |
| 4/22/2000 | Bhaktavar Lentin (72), former Judge of the Bombay High Court, died after a prolonged illness at his residence in Mumbai. |
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