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Historical Event on 1/1/1992
Petrol and diesel price hiked in 11 states to make it uniform all over the country.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/3/1947 | Shetkari Kamgar Party was established at Devachi Alandi. |
| 8/15/1947 | India and Pakistan gain independence (dominion status). Lord Mountbatten becomes Governor General of India and Mohammad Ali Jinnah is appointed the Governor General of Pakistan. Independent India's first cabinet meeting with Jawaharlal Nehru as Prime Minister held. Members of the first Cabinet were: 1. J. L. Nehru - PM, External and Commonwealth Relations and Scientific Research, 2. Sardar Patel - Home Information and Broadcasting and States, 3. Dr. Rajendra Praised - Food and Agriculture, 4. Maulana Azad - Education, 5. John Mathai - Railways and Transport, 6. Sardar Baldev Singh - Defence, 7. Jagjivan Ram - Labour, 8. C. H. Bhabha - Commerce, 9. R. A. Kidwai - Communications, 10. Rajkumari Amrit Kaur - Health, 11. B. R. Ambedkar - Law 12. R. K. Sanmukham Chetty - Finance, 13. Shyama Prasad Mookerji - Industries and Supplies, 14. N. V. Gadgil - Works, Mines and Power. |
| 9/8/1962 | Chinese army infiltrated in the north-east border of India exceeding the Mac-Mahon line (Tibet-India boundary). This was the first ocassion of Chinese infiltration. |
| 11/12/1929 | First Maharastrian Governor Shripad Balwant Tambe was appointed as Governor of Nagpur. |
| 7/15/1904 | Mogubai Kurdikar, veteran singer of 'Jaypur Gharana', was born. |
| 11/5/1930 | Arjun Singh, leader of Madhya Pradesh, was born. |
| 5/20/1994 | K. Brahmananda Reddy, 83, former Andhra Pradesh CM, passed away in Hyderabad. |
| 12/1/1951 | Abanindra Nath Tagore, famous Indian painter and sculptor, died in Calcutta. |
| 5/12/1906 | Gandhiji support the ""Home Rule"" for India in the name of ''justice and for good of humanity"". |
| 9/24/1932 | Preetilata Waddedara, the first armed woman revolutionary, was hanged for ""Chatgaon Ammunitions Plot"". |
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