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Historical Event on 12/11/1971
The elite para-commandos and parachute battalions -India's 'Red Devils', as they are affectionately called, have an unsurpassed ethos and elan of their own. 2 Para Battalion executed a superb airborne assault operation at Tangail in East Pakistan, which was the first of its kind in the subcontinent.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/28/1996 | Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever (DHF) spills into Western UP from Delhi. |
| 2/2/1952 | India won first cricket Test Match at Chepauk Stadium, Madras. |
| 9/27/1833 | Raja Rammohan Roy, great social reformer, lawyer and politician passed away at Stapleton Grove in England. |
| 8/1/1953 | All Private Airlines were nationalised by establishing of All Airlines India International. |
| 6/18/1993 | Sunil Mittal, businessman, denies getting any money from Harshad Mehta. |
| 8/6/1962 | Peking agrees to talks with India to settle border disputes. |
| 7/20/1957 | India's biggest sheet-glass manufacturing factory formally opened in Hazaribagh, Bihar. |
| 9/1/1978 | Air Chief Marshal Idris Hasan Latif, PVSM, became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/Aug/1981. |
| 6/10/1959 | Tyagmurti Goswami Ganeshdutt, social worker, died near Hardwar. |
| 6/28/1986 | Union Government sanctions maternity leave for unmarried women employees too. |
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