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Historical Event on 1/1/1956
No. 20 Squadron, Indian Air Force's first jet squadron equipped with Vampires, was formed and christened 'The Lightnings'.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/5/1916 | Indian Women's University was established at Hingne near Poona by Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve with just four students. After 1920, it was renamed as Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Indian Women's University. |
| 12/26/1917 | Prabhakar Machve, famous Hindi and Marathi litterateur, was born. |
| 12/1/1989 | National Front decides to form a government with outside support from the BJP and the Left Parties. |
| 10/17/1994 | Kapil Dev's last one-day international vs West Indies. |
| 10/15/1921 | Suryanarayannamurty Rebbapragada, social reformer, college principal and journalist, was born at Rajahmundry in A.P. |
| 5/11/1970 | A bill for setting up of ""North Eastern Council"" passed. |
| 1/1/1983 | This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Communications Year"". |
| 5/26/1998 | S. Chandrasekar, scientist, was selected for the Niels Bohr-UNESCO gold medal. |
| 9/21/1945 | British promise India independence. |
| 1/10/1979 | Anand Gopal Shauri, litterateur and journalist, passed away. |
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