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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 |
| 7/20/1969 | M. Hidayatullah became the first acting President of India. |
| 12/15/1965 | Maharastra State Agriculture Industry Development Corporation established. |
| 9/20/1921 | Pamanmal Hazari Punjabi, right-hand batsman (164 runs in five tests vs Pakistan in 1954-55), was born at Karachi. |
| 12/28/1977 | Sumitranandan Pant, famous Hindi poet and literaeur, died. |
| 4/6/1966 | Mihir Sen, first Indian swimmer to achieve many remarkable feats, swam across the 'Palk Strait' measuring 22 kms between India & Sri Lanka (Cylone). |
| 1/9/1889 | Dr. Vrindavanlal Varma, famous Hindi writer and social reformer, was born in Jhansi. He mainly wrote historical and social novels, most famouse being ""Mriganainee"". |
| 6/4/1947 | Dharmanand Damodar Kosambi, internationally famous Pandit of Buddhism, passed away. |
| 1/28/1998 | All 26 accused, who stood trial in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, were sentenced to death. A designated Judge of the TADA court in Chennai found them guilty. |
| 1/14/1990 | India and Maldives scrap visas. |
| 2/9/1991 | India holds the last decennial census of the century. |
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