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Historical Event on 3/12/1969

Reactor Research Centre established at Kalpakkam. On 18th December 1985, it was renamed as Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/2/1929Amritlal Basu, famous Bengali playwright, died.
7/8/1954Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, inaugurated world's longest Bhakra-Nangal Dam canal at Punjab.
3/8/1986L.K. Advani elected President of BJP.
5/10/1981The first day and night cricket match of India was played at the flood-lit ground of the Wilson College Gymkhana (Bombay).
8/9/1893Shivpujan Sahai, famous Hindi story writer and novelist, was born at Bihar in a middle class family.
2/23/1997Successful test firing of the 250-km version of the Prithvi missile.
3/4/1924Shyam Lal Gupt 'Parshad' wrote the song 'Jhanda Ooncha Rahe Hamara'.
1/16/1916Amat Debananda, politician, was born in Balani village at Orissa .
9/21/1995Rumors that statues of the Hindu god Ganesh were drinking milk spread in New Delhi.
8/18/1945Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose left Saigon and is believed to have died in a Japanese aeroplane crash at Taihoku Airport in Taiwan.