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Historical Event on 12/3/1993

Bahadur Prasad wins silver in 1500 m in Asian Track and Field meet in Manila.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/28/1976Second World Hindi Conference held in Mauritius.
3/16/1997The first batch of three Russian-made Sukhoi-30 combat aircraft reaches India.
10/23/1999V. P. Singh, former Prime Minister, tops the list of star witnesses in Bofors case.
12/8/1996Sachin Tendulkar became the youngest cricketer to make 3000 runs in test cricket (at the age of 23 yrs and 228 days.)
4/1/1933Indian Air Force was established at Drigh Road in Karachi (now in Pakistan). Subroto Mukherjee and four other officers were inducted as pilots when the first Indian Air Force Squadron was formed. The first aircraft flight joined the Indian Air Force, at that time it possessed a strength of six RAF-trained officers and 19 Havai Sepoys (literally, air soldiers); its aircraft inventory comprised four Westland Wapiti II. A army co-operation biplaned at Drigh Road as the ""A"" Flight nucleus of the planned No.1 (Army Co-operation) Squadron.
11/22/1968Lok Sabha passed notification to change the name of Madras state as Tamil Nadu.
9/18/1967English was adopted the official language of Nagaland .
9/8/1997English chosen as the official language of Dravidian University which was set up at Kuppam (Andhra Pradesh) jointly by the southern states.
8/7/1888Navalram (Navalram Laxmiram Pandya), literature critic and versatile Gujarati author, died.
3/31/1871Gangadhar Balkrishna Deshpande, freedom fighter and loyal Congress leader 'Lion of Karnataka', was born.