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Historical Event on 3/12/1992

The four-member break-away group of Telugu Desam recognised by Lok Sabha speaker.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/25/1959Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister, declares in New Delhi that India will defend Bhutan and Sikkim if attacked by China.
5/11/1985Fifteen hundred people were arrested in Sikh violence.
9/2/1960Dr. Shankar Purushottam Adharkar, famous Botanist in India, passed away.
4/2/1987Indian Standards Institution becomes Bureau of Indian Standards.
1/31/1997Government raises quantity of gold that can be brought into the country by non-residents to 10 kg. (from the existing 5).
12/1/1885Dattatreya Balkrishna Kalelkar, famous Gandhian Gujrathi llitterateur and educationist, was born at Satara in Maharashtra.
6/25/1994Dinsha Pirosha Madan, Chief Justice of Supreme Court, died.
7/31/1919Hemchandra ""Hemu"" Ramchandra Adhikari, cricketer (right-handed batsman 1947-59), was born in Baroda.
10/27/1987Vijay Merchant, cricketer (Test average 47.72, 1st-class avg 71), died.
10/27/1987Father Francis Xavier, Spanish founder of the Jesuits, 35, and three friends set sail from Lisbon, Portugal for Goa. They became the first Roman Catholic missionaries to travel to India.