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Historical Event on 3/23/1962
Nawab of Pataudi captains Indian cricket team vs WI at the age of 21 years 77 days.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/21/1999 | B. R. Chopra, filmmaker, gets the Dadasaheb Phalke Award. |
| 2/12/1960 | Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers. |
| 2/11/1942 | Jamnalal Bajaj, greatest iIndustrialist, social reformer, freedom fighter and Gandhiwadi, passed away. |
| 11/21/1921 | Prince of Wales visited India and Congress observed all India strike. |
| 12/28/1885 | Allian Octavian Hume, a Scotsman, founded National Union and it held its first meeting in Bombay Tejpal Hall. The first session of Indian National Congress started under the Presidentship of Vyomesh Chandra Banerjee. |
| 1/6/1987 | An International Conference to commemorate the 75 anniversary of the African National Congress opens in New Delhi. |
| 3/11/1824 | US War Dept creates the Bureau of Indian Affair. |
| 8/15/1947 | The Indian independence divided not only the country but its armed forces as well. These units came down and their equipment was transferred to the newly created Royal Pakistan Air Force. Thus, the principal components of the Royal Indian Air Force, during the partition, were nos. 3, 4, 7, 8 and 10 Squadrons with Tempest US, No. 2 Squadron with Spitfires and No. 12 Squadron with C-47s and No. 1 Air Observation Flight (AOF). The establishment of this AOF with AOP Auster 4s, 5s and 6s, coincided with independence. No. 6 Squadron, which had been in process of converting from Spitfires to C-47s at Drigh Road, had been stood down and its transports transferred to Pakistan. |
| 8/1/2000 | One hundred people of Kinnaur, Shimla and Mandi districts of HP die following flash floods in the Sutlej river. |
| 10/2/1952 | Community Development Programme started. |
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