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Historical Event on 3/12/1992

The four-member break-away group of Telugu Desam recognised by Lok Sabha speaker.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/1/1909Dattaram Dharmaji Hindlekar, cricketer (Indian batsman & wicket-keeper 1936-46), was born in Bombay.
2/1/1917Samar Roy, cricket Test Umpire for 6 tests from 1961-70, was born in Bengal.
3/30/1999Services regained team title in the national boxing championship in Visakhapatnam.
4/8/1759British troops chase French out of Masulipatam, India.
7/6/1942Urmila Devi Shastri, freedom fighter and editor of ""Janma Bhoomi"", died due to non-medical facility and mal-nutrition in Jail. She has also written ""Karagaar Ke Anubhav"" in 1930. She was arrested for Satyagrah and forcefully closing of Foreign Goods.
3/24/1992Congress (I) strength goes up by six seats in the Rajya Sabha on account of biennial polls.
11/20/1902Gandhiji returned to South Africa at the request of the Indian community and revived the Indians against Anti-Asian Laws.
8/7/1925Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.
9/30/199724th Stock Exchange of India set up at Trivandrum.
2/4/1991An abortive bid to hijack a Calcutta-Agartala flight by a 24-year old youth.