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Historical Event on 12/15/1912

Aspy Merwan, engineer and who became the Air Marchal of India, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/16/1929Yerramilli Janardan Rao, educationist, was born at Tanuku, (W. Godavari).
11/19/19829th Asian Games started in Delhi.
10/30/1991Bansilal Ladda, veteran freedom fighter and law expert, passed away.
7/30/1883Badridas Goenka, famous industrialist, was born.
11/1/1967Old Punjab, after first partition in 1947, was again seperated into two new states of Punjab and Haryana on linguistic basis, and Chandigarh became a Union Territory.
5/8/1930Gandhi followers mob Bombay to protest his arrest.
2/7/1931Shila Kaul, the chief minister of New Delhi, was born.
7/10/1949Sunil Manohar Gavaskar, great Indian cricket player (opener, 10,122 Test runs), was born in Bombay. He has received Arjun Award (1975) and Padma Bhushan (1980).
6/17/1991Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Rajiv Gandhi (Posthumous) (1944-1991).
3/1/1908Tata Iron & Steel Company was the first steel company to be established in India.