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Historical Event on 3/24/1992
Congress (I) strength goes up by six seats in the Rajya Sabha on account of biennial polls.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/26/1996 | 47th Republic Day celebrated;Chief Guest was Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of Brazil. |
| 2/2/1996 | Gold price zooms to all-time record high of Rs. 5600 per 10 grams. |
| 1/22/1989 | DMK swept to power in Tamil Nadu Assembly election. |
| 9/26/1992 | Indian Airlines hike fare by 9 percent. |
| 6/12/1976 | Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Gopinath Kaviraj, editor and master, died at Varanasi. |
| 9/22/1869 | Shri Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Shastri, great scholar of Sanskrit, master, politician, social reformer, President of India and educationist, was born at Valangaiman village, Tamil Nadu. |
| 10/30/1966 | First meeting of the Shiv Sena at Shivaji Park. |
| 4/22/1958 | Admiral R. T. Katari was appointed as the first Indian Chief of the Naval Staff. |
| 8/15/1947 | The Indian independence divided not only the country but its armed forces as well. These units came down and their equipment was transferred to the newly created Royal Pakistan Air Force. Thus, the principal components of the Royal Indian Air Force, during the partition, were nos. 3, 4, 7, 8 and 10 Squadrons with Tempest US, No. 2 Squadron with Spitfires and No. 12 Squadron with C-47s and No. 1 Air Observation Flight (AOF). The establishment of this AOF with AOP Auster 4s, 5s and 6s, coincided with independence. No. 6 Squadron, which had been in process of converting from Spitfires to C-47s at Drigh Road, had been stood down and its transports transferred to Pakistan. |
| 9/6/1994 | Prime Minister Narsimha Rao meets with his counterpart Vo Van Kiet at Hanoi. Both countries decide to boost ties. |
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