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Historical Event on 1/1/1956
No. 20 Squadron, Indian Air Force's first jet squadron equipped with Vampires, was formed and christened 'The Lightnings'.

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8/4/1997	Supreme Court declares that the Rashtrapati Bhavan press communique of 23/1/1992 on a proposal to confer the Bharat Ratna 'posthumously' on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose ""should be treated as cancelled"", as the proposal was dropped by the Government in deference to the sentiments expressed by the public and his family members.
1/1/1973	Indian General Insurance Corporation nationalised.
5/12/1992	Ms. Santosh Yadav (Indo-Tibetan Border Police) becomes the second Indian woman to set foot atop Mt. Everest.
1/23/1954	Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad declares that the State of Kashmir is a part of India.
12/28/1885	Allian Octavian Hume, a Scotsman, founded National Union and it held its first meeting in Bombay Tejpal Hall. The first session of Indian National Congress started under the Presidentship of Vyomesh Chandra Banerjee.
10/2/1986	Rajiv Gandhi survives assassination attempt made by Sikh extremists at Raj Ghat.
1/9/1922	Har Gobind Khurana, scientist of Biology, was born in India. He did his M.Sc from University of Punjab and, for higher education went to University of Liverpool. In 1959, he produced a chemical called ""Coenzymea"", which is essential for certain processes in the human body. He was awarded Nobel Prize for medicine in 1968 along with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Halley.
4/7/1934	Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience in India.
4/4/1990	Hindi film 'Bagh Bahadur' received the best feature film award of 1989.
1/2/1953	Government set up a Board of Editors under Dr. Syed Mahmood to prepare a history of Freedom Movement in India.

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Historical Event on 1/1/1956 No. 20 Squadron, Indian Air Force's first jet squadron equipped with Vampires, was formed and christened 'The Lightnings'.

Historical Event on 1/1/1956
No. 20 Squadron, Indian Air Force's first jet squadron equipped with Vampires, was formed and christened 'The Lightnings'.