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Historical Event on 12/31/1961
99 Infantry Brigade Group, under Brigadier K S Raja, launched operations in Katanga province and regained full control of Katanga amidst stiff resistance offered by a break away faction (Katangese gendarmerie).
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| 1/22/1990 | FIR registered in Bofors kickbacks case. |
| 7/15/1917 | Tukaram Tanaji Sawant, educationist and famous Hindi writer, was born at Pokharam, (Maharashtra). |
| 4/13/1984 | India beat Pak by 58 runs to win the first Cricket Asia Cup in Sharjah. |
| 4/13/1984 | Guru Angad, Sikh Guru, was born. |
| 12/8/1980 | Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev visits New Delhi. |
| 3/28/1997 | Final phase of repatriation of Chakma and other tribal refugees of the Chittagong Hill Tracts from Tripura begins. |
| 7/12/1999 | Rajendra Kumar (71), legendary actor who acted in over 150 Hindi films, died in Mumbai. |
| 3/1/1971 | General Election ( 5th) of India begins. |
| 9/13/1928 | Shridhar Pathak, prominent Hindi writer, passed away. |
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