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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
12/16/2000Indian Airlines wins the 60th National Hockey championship in Jammu.
5/22/1993Congress (I) suffers reverses in the by-elections.
11/29/1996Shaleem I. Shervani, Minister of State for Health & Family Welfare and President, ICMR Governing Body, was the Chief Guest at the concluding ceremony of the year long celebrations of the 85th year of ICMR at New Delhi. He released a special issue of the ICMR Bulletin on this occasion and presented momentos to the former Additional Directors-General and Directors-General of the ICMR.
7/21/1962Passenger Train and Freight Train collided near Dumraon killing 69 persons.
5/25/1979Commercial Unity Day started.
9/24/1938Piloo Dara Reporter, cricket test umpire for 10 tests from 1984-87, was born in Mumbai. He was the first ever test umpire to be invited in a foreign country along with V. K. Ramaswamy also of India.
8/8/1932Dada Kondke, famous Marathi actor, was born.
6/20/1858Gwalior fort was captured by British troops and the first Indian Sepoy Mutiny officially came to an end.
12/19/1919Sunil Kumar Banerjee, cricket Test Umpire for 1 test from 1963-64, was born at Bengal.
8/16/1932Britain instituted new electoral plan for India: to allow limited untouchables and giving them separate representation.