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Historical Event on 10/1/1932
Indian Milatary Academy became functional with Brigadier LP Collins, DSO, OBE as the Commandant. The first course of 40 GCs had on its rolls Sam Manekshaw, Smith Dun and Mohd Musa, later to be Chiefs of the armies of their respective countries, i.e. India, Burma (now Myanmar) and Pakistan. This training was for a period of two and a half years.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/8/1993 | India and Spain sign four agreements as the Spanish PM, Felipe Gonzalez, began a two-day visit to New Delhi. |
| 9/1/1956 | Life Insurance Corporation of India was established and all Life Insurance Business Companies were nationalised and merged in this corporation. |
| 4/5/1989 | Pannalal Patel, great Gujrati litterateur, died. |
| 10/19/1979 | T. R. Baalu was born in Thalikottai, Distt. Thiruvarur (Tamil Nadu). |
| 3/30/1908 | Devika Rani, famous film actress, was born. |
| 2/23/1997 | 176 people dead and 500 injured in a major fire at a religious congregation in Baripada, Orissa. |
| 11/16/1992 | Reservation, Supreme Court rejects economic criteria. |
| 12/25/1964 | Indian Ocean hurricane kills 4,000 in Ceylon, 3,000 in Indian province of Madras. |
| 1/26/1972 | Amar Jawan, a national memorial, established at India Gate, New Dehli. |
| 1/28/1900 | General K.M. Cariappa, first Indian Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army, was born at Sanivara, Santhai (Coorg). |
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