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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
1/1/1956Guru Angad Dev, Sikh Guru, passed away.
9/11/1987Mahadevi Verma, Gyanpith award winner and one of the greatest luminaries of modern Hindi literature, passed away.
7/27/199511 Cong-I and National Conference activists were gunned down in J&K after they were abducted from their homes.
2/10/1999P. Gopi Chand (A.P.) and Aparna Popat (Karnataka) won the men's and women's singles titles respectively in the National badminton championship in Delhi.
12/28/1981Salman Rushdie is awarded the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children.
9/15/1967Ramkrishnarao Burgula, Chief Minister of Hyderabad, died.
12/29/1997Sonia Gandhi stepped into active politics.
9/26/1996High Court rejected Rao's petition for anticipatory bail in Pathak cheating case.
11/15/1993IA Airbus with 272 on board forcelands on a paddy field near Tirupati; all passengers safe.
1/25/1995India and South Africa sign three pacts to forge special ties.