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Historical Event on 12/1/1942
No. 8 Squadron was raised meanwhile, absorbing the remaining coastal defence flight personnel.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/23/1964 | Samrendranath Roy, great statistician, passed away. |
| 12/17/1978 | Dhirendranath Ganguly, father of Bengali film industry, died. |
| 9/10/1999 | Top seeds Bhupathi and Paes finished runners-up in the US Open doubles, losing to Sebastien Lareau and Alex O'Brien in the final. |
| 12/14/1998 | The Supreme Court allows Karnataka to begin skeletal work on erection of 26 crest gates at the Almatti dam on the Krishna at ''its own risk and cost'', but directs it not to raise the dam height beyond the present 509 metres. |
| 11/18/1972 | Tiger was adopted as India's 'National Animal' |
| 8/10/1993 | Narayan Keshav Upasni, famous educationist, passed away. |
| 11/18/1974 | Rajni Pannikar,noted story writer, passed away. |
| 1/15/1966 | The Indian Air Force achieved equal status with the Army and possessed in excess of 70,000 personnel and was nearing its 45-squadron goal. Its composition in the autumn of 1968 included 23 fighter category squadrons, three tactical bomber squadrons, a maritime patrol squadron (with ex-Air India L. 1049G Super Constellations), 11 transport squadrons, four AOP squadrons, a number of helicopter units and a few SAM squadrons. |
| 12/27/1931 | 150 are arrested following 'red shirt' riots in the N.W. Frontier province. |
| 1/26/2000 | Mr. K. Vadivel Raj gets the 1999 Kabir Puraskar for rescuing 11 persons of another community during caste violence in September 1998 in a village in Tamil Nadu. |
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