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Historical Event on 12/12/1992

The world's largest monolithic granite statue of Lord Buddha, weighing 350 tonnes, placed on the 'Rock of Gibraltar' in the midst of Hussain Sagar lake in Hyderabad.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/3/1984Bombay beat Delhi on first innings to win the Ranji Trophy.
7/22/19961996-97 budget presented to Parliament by Finance Minister P. Chidambaram.
10/15/1995PM leaves for a 12-day tour of Egypt, NAM Summit at Cartagena in Columbia and 50th year United Nations celebrations at New York.
11/30/1909Gandhiji reaches South Africa.
1/1/1992Petrol and diesel price hiked in 11 states to make it uniform all over the country.
3/26/1996The 3-day old Hazratbal shrine crisis ends, as the militants holed up in the shrine come out of it.
2/6/1995India and France decide to set up permanent Secretariat in Paris during the Indo-French Joint Business Council in Delhi.
10/15/1961Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', famous Hindi poet, writer, editor, social worker and litterateur, died in Allahabad.
2/13/1719Jahandar Shah was strangled to death and the Sayyid brothers were killed soon after.
7/24/1911Pannalal Ghosh, famous flute player, was born.