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Historical Event on 12/6/1732
Warren Hastings, the first Governor-General of East India Company in India, was born in Churchill village of Oxfordshire in UK.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/17/1976 | New Zealand score their first innings win in Tests vs India. |
| 10/29/1971 | Cyclone and tidal waves struck Orissa state claiming 10,000 lives. |
| 10/1/1894 | Sudhi Ranjan Das, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born in Calcutta. |
| 5/25/1999 | India blasts its way into the global satellite launch vehicle market with the PSLV-C2 deploying two foreign satellites besides the Indian remote sensing satellite, IRS-P4. |
| 1/21/1924 | Professor Madhu Dandavate, former Finance Minister, was born at Ahmednagar. |
| 1/6/1842 | 4,500 British & Indian troops leave Kabul.. |
| 12/16/1994 | Pratap Singh Rane of Congress (I) takes oath of office. |
| 6/25/1975 | President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed signed the declaration of Emergency Rule in India. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi implemented the same very next day. |
| 6/9/1834 | Dr. William Carey, great writer and social worker, died. |
| 11/17/1948 | Despite the scepticism on the part of the US and British advisers concerning the feasibility of the scheme, the first half-dozen HAL-reconditioned B-24s were ready by November 1948 and, on the 17th of that month, No. 5 Squadron was formed with these heavy bombers. |
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