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Historical Event on 12/31/1966
Bishen Singh Bedi made his Test Cricket debut vs West Indies at Calcutta.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/23/1996 | North-Eastern Development Finance Corporation inaugurated. |
| 4/10/1935 | Vasudevaru Kesavaru (K.V. Manalikkera), famous writer and poet, was born at Madras. |
| 2/24/1950 | G.J.M.Gazdar, computational linguist, was born. |
| 12/25/1861 | Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, freedom fighter and founder of Banaras Hindu University, was born at Allahabad. |
| 5/19/1954 | The Govt. of India constituted a National Film Board. |
| 3/8/1930 | Mahatma Gandhi started civil disobedience movement continues in India. |
| 12/8/1994 | At 1730 hrs, a rocket propelled grenade fired by Somalia militia during inter clan fighting exploded on the roof of the barrack which housed IAF officers. In the explosion, two officers and an airman were injured. |
| 1/10/1693 | Job Charnock, founder of Calcutta, died in the same city and he was laid to rest. |
| 11/9/1897 | Kotamaraju Rama Rao, founder-editor of Lucknow's ""National Herald"", was born at Chirala. He was referred by Gandhiji as 'Fighting Edit |
| 10/3/1984 | India's longest distance train Himsagar Express (from Jammu Tavi to Kanya Kumari) was first flagged. |
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