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Historical Event on 12/11/1971

The elite para-commandos and parachute battalions -India's 'Red Devils', as they are affectionately called, have an unsurpassed ethos and elan of their own. 2 Para Battalion executed a superb airborne assault operation at Tangail in East Pakistan, which was the first of its kind in the subcontinent.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/5/1947Indian Act, 1947 was presented in British Parliament, which was then accepted by the emperor on 18th July.
11/15/1817Battle of Yerwada.
12/13/1978Sayyed Avid Husain, litterateur and Padmabhushan awardee, passed away.
1/9/1995T.N. Seshan, chief election commissioner, asks Centre to put off annual budget in lieu of State assembly elections.
4/15/1948Indian territory of Himachal Pradesh was created by the merger of some 30 small ruling states.
7/1/1992Major changes in Exim policy-farming and repacking included under the definition of 'manufacturer'.
4/29/1954India accepted Tibet as a part of China.
4/21/1993India announces establishing proof in Pakistan's complicity in Bombay bomb blasts.
8/15/1969Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) formed under Department of Atomic Energy.
12/16/1980Fisher Wealthy Hornsinger, an American social worker and who worked for Adult Education in India, passed away.