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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 |
| 7/18/1909 | Vishnu Dey, Gyanpeeth awardee and famous Bengali poet, was born. |
| 9/13/1997 | Grieving India lays to rest Mother Teresa in state funeral in Calcutta in which pomp and splendour is combined with religious rites. |
| 10/1/1941 | No. 3 Squadron, similarly Audax-equipped, was raised at Peshawar. |
| 11/19/1997 | 1996 Indira Gandhi prize for peace, disarmament and development presented to Medicins Sans Frontieres, a non-government organisation, providing medical aid to the needy across the globe, by President K. R. Narayanan on the 80th birth anniversary of Indira Gandhi. |
| 12/10/1907 | Rudyard Kipling, author of `The Jungle Book' and `Kim', received the Nobel prize for literature. |
| 6/30/1965 | Cease-fire was agreed under UN auspices between India and Pakistan, who signed treaty to stop the war at Rann of Kutch. |
| 7/27/1949 | Agreement reached on the ceasefire line in Kashmir. |
| 10/2/1996 | Mother Teresa made honorary US citizen. |
| 10/16/1990 | Om Shivpuri, famous film and theatre artist, died. |
| 10/16/1994 | IRS P-2 successfully placed in orbit. |
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