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Historical Event on 3/16/1939
Subroto Mukherjee became the first Indian Officer to command a squadron when he took over No.1.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/7/1980 | Mother Teresa visits the poor in Bronx at New York. |
| 4/27/1906 | China, as suzerain of Tibet, has agreed to the terms of a treaty proposed by Britain. According to the treaty, foreign powers may not send representatives to Tibet, receive transportation or mining concessions, or occupy, buy or lease any territory in Tibet without British permission. The British want to prevent the Russians from establishing a protectorate over Tibet, which lies on India's northern border. Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, failed in attempts to communicate with Tibet's ruler, the Dalai Lama. A British military expedition fought its way to the capital at Lhasa and concluded the agreement. |
| 1/29/1993 | Test debut of Vinod Kambli, prolific Indian batsman. |
| 1/8/1925 | The first All India Art & Craft Exhibition was inaugurated by Sir William Marries, Governor UP at Kaisar Baug, Lucknow. |
| 10/3/1997 | Financial and operational autonomy to be given to 97 profit-making public sector enterprises ('mini-ratnas') other than the navaratnas. |
| 2/13/1922 | The Indian National Congress suspends its civil disobedience campaign in the face of mounting violence. |
| 3/4/1996 | King of Bhutan arrives in India for a three-day state visit. |
| 4/15/1919 | Arjan Singh, Air Chief Marshal and Padma Vibhushan, DFC, was born in Lyalpur. |
| 6/1/1927 | Justice Savyasachi Mukherjee was born. |
| 4/11/1964 | Communist Party of India was divided in two parts. Firstly known as Communist Party of India [CPI], its second fragmentation was named as Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)]. This division was on ideological differences at the international level. |
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