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Historical Event on 12/11/1971

The elite para-commandos and parachute battalions -India's 'Red Devils', as they are affectionately called, have an unsurpassed ethos and elan of their own. 2 Para Battalion executed a superb airborne assault operation at Tangail in East Pakistan, which was the first of its kind in the subcontinent.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/2/1954Ceylon Asian conference ends with plea for peace in Indo-China, end of atomic tests and condemnation of colonialism.
12/31/1923Vishnu Dayal Jhunjhunwala, great industrialist, was born at Kanpur.
5/13/1923Moinul Haque Choudhury, social reformer and politician, was born at Sonabarighat (Assam).
11/16/1983Kapil Dev took 9-83 vs West Indies at Ahmedabad. India still lost the game.
1/30/1991Union Government dismisses Karunanidhi government. President's rule imposed in Tamil Nadu.
4/14/1905Earthquake at Kangra region in Himachal.
4/16/1976The govt. announces its new birth-control program to curb population growth.
6/10/1890Sunday introduced as a weekly holiday.
1/1/1894Satyendranath Bose, Professor and famous Indian physics expert, was born, He worked with Albert Einstein for some time.
9/29/2000Nayudu award goes to former India cricket captain Lt. Col. Hemu Adhikari.