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Historical Event on 1/12/2000
The Union Cabinet approves a proposal of the Civil Aviation Ministry to privatise the airports at Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Calcutta and a new airport in Bangalore on a 30-year lease which can be extended by 19 years.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/2/1946 | Pratham Chaudhary (Birbal), modern Bengali poet and critic, passed away. |
| 5/25/1899 | Nazrul Islam, revolutionary and Bengali poet, was born in Churulia village of Burdwan district. |
| 12/24/1880 | Pattabhi Sitaramayya, politician and president of Indian National Congress, was born in Andhra Pradesh. |
| 8/15/1947 | India gains independence from the British rule and Pakistan emerges as a separate Islamic nation. Around 600,000 die in clashes during the subsequent population exchange of 14 million people between the two new countries. |
| 2/5/1992 | Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Dilip Vengsarkar. |
| 11/18/1960 | Raghunath Chaudhary, famous natural poet of Assam, passed away. |
| 8/15/1872 | Sri Aurobindo Man Mohan Ghosh born in Calcutta. He was a renaissance yoga philosopher, freedom fighter and teacher. His 30-volume work discusses the 'superman', a metaphor for the divinely transformed individual soul. He withdrew from the world in 1910 and founded International Ashram in Pondicherry. |
| 11/1/1991 | J.N. Dixit appointed the next Foreign Secretary. |
| 12/6/1956 | Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Babasaheb), great social worker, politician and writer of Indian constitution, passed away in Bombay. |
| 11/1/1954 | French handed over their territories of Pondicherry, Mahe, Karikal and Yanon to the Government of India. |
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