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Historical Event on 12/6/1732
Warren Hastings, the first Governor-General of East India Company in India, was born in Churchill village of Oxfordshire in UK.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/9/1999 | Prof. Romila Thapar, historian, is elected to the highest British academic honour. |
| 10/20/1962 | China mounted a massive attacked in N.E.E.F.A. and Ladakh borders. Chinese army pushed Indians back. The real test of IAF airlift capability came when open warfare erupted on the Sino-lndian border, while operating to the tricky helipads in the mountains, including the operation of C-119Gs from airstrips 17,000 ft (5180m) above sea level in the Karakoram Himalayas, and the air-lifting by An-12Bs of two troops of AMX-13 light tanks to Chushul in Ladakh, where the small airstrip was 15,000 ft (4570m) above sea level. |
| 10/3/1996 | Second phase of UP polling. |
| 7/1/1955 | Imperial Bank of India was inaugurated and was renamed as State Bank of India. |
| 3/30/1665 | Murarbaji died at Purandar fort during a battle with Dilerkhan. |
| 1/6/1979 | Rohini-200, first monsoon experimental rocket, launched from Thumba. |
| 6/9/1980 | M. G. Ramachandran's second AIADMK ministry takes office. |
| 9/12/1932 | Vijaya Shriniwas Jahagirdas, famous Marathi story writer and poet, was born. |
| 12/1/1942 | No. 8 Squadron was raised meanwhile, absorbing the remaining coastal defence flight personnel. |
| 3/25/1898 | Swami Vivekanand accepted Sister Nivedita as his disciple. |
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