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Historical Event on 1/12/1992
India and Russia sign a new political treaty.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/9/1964 | Hanumant Singh scores 105 runs on his debut match during the India vs England cricket tournament at Delhi. |
| 1/15/1784 | Sir William Jones, Judge and linguist, and Sir Warren Hastings established the Asiatic Society of Bengal at Calcutta. This was the first scholastic institution. |
| 8/27/1978 | Lord Mountbatten died in an explosion near Ireland. |
| 10/14/1910 | Further unrest took place in Lhasa, Tibet, following the arrest of Dalai Lama's agent by the Chinese on the Chinese frontier with India. |
| 12/12/1971 | The first aerial victory was when MiG-21FLs of No. 47 Squadron shot down a PAF F-104 over the Gulf of Kutch and this was followed by three more victories in quick succession on 17 December, when MiG-21FLs of No. 29 Squadron escorting HF-24 Maruts, shot down intercepting F-104s near Uttarlai in the Rajasthan desert in gun-missile encounters, while a third F-104, on an intruding mission, was shot down by another MiG 21FL of No.29 Squadron. |
| 7/18/1909 | Vishnu Dey, Gyanpeeth awardee and famous Bengali poet, was born. |
| 2/1/1985 | Muhammad Azharuddin created a world record at Kanpur by hitting a century in each of his first three test. |
| 1/12/1708 | Shahu was crowned as the Maratha ruler. Shahu, son of Sambhaji, entered Satara and released Aurangzeb's son Azam the previous year. |
| 3/23/1986 | The first women's company of Central Reserve Police Force camp was raised in Durgapur. |
| 4/15/1919 | British troops kill 400 Indians, who were demonstrating against the British rule at Amritsar for the forced marshall law on Punjab. |
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