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Historical Event on 12/14/1994
10 IAF personnel of the first batch were reinducted and the last batch left on 20th Dec 94. Cpl Nasir was left as a lying casualty due to injuries sustained in the RPG explosion.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
2/12/2000 | Ashok Shandilya wins the men's title in the National Billiards championship in Bangalore. |
6/5/1981 | Gopal Saini at Tokyo sets record for 3000m ST. in 8,30.88. |
12/15/1950 | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, first deputy Prime Minister of independent India also known as the 'Iron Man' and Bharat Ratna awardee, died. |
11/18/1978 | Dhirendra Ganguly, film maker, writer, director and actor, passed away. |
10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
2/16/1962 | General Election ( 3rd) of India begins. |
8/4/1997 | Nilesh Kulkarni becomes the first Indian to take a wicket with his first ball in Test Cricket (Colombo). |
12/4/1910 | Ramaswami Venkataraman, former President of India (1987-92), was born. |
3/29/1970 | Union Government revises the percentage of reservation in service for SC\STs from 12.5\% to 15\%. Orders to be effective from 25 March. |
3/29/1970 | Babur came to India , and conquered it through Sindh in his fifth attempt. |
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