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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
12/11/1987Rajiv Government defeats the first ever no-confidence motion.
4/15/1962S. S. Khera was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 18-11-1964.
7/25/1929Somnath Chatterjee, politician and lawyer, was born.
4/18/1959India, Pakistan sign one-year pact on Indus River irrigation.
8/25/1992Veerappa Moily, Karnataka minister, stripped of Education portfolio.
8/7/1868Pratham Chaudhary (Birbal), modern Bengali poet and critic, was born.
6/21/1948C. Rajagopalachari was appointed the first Indian Governor General of Indian union (21/06/1948-25/01/1950). After January 25, 1950, this post was abolished.
11/5/1996United Front suffers a setback with one of its constituents, the Madhya Pradesh Vikas party, deciding to walk out and merge with Congress (I).
4/27/1986Congress (I) expels former Union Minister Pranab Kumar Mukherjee from the party for 6 years.
10/14/1999Sheikh Shamim, an Indian, is hanged for espionage in Pakistan.