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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
10/14/1989Election Commission accepted Shiv Sena as a political party.
2/28/1998The third and final phase of polling is held in 131 Lok Sabha constituencies in 10 States and one Union Territory.
1/5/1994Jnanpith Award for Oriya Poet Sitakant Mahapatra.
10/17/1979Mother Teresa, social worker, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
10/26/1995India decides to go ahead with Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme in the wake of US stand to supply $370 million arms package to Pakistan.
5/18/1995Sukhomoy Sengupta, 76, Tripura's first CM, passed away.
2/2/1978The Indian National Congress (I) recognized as a national party and allotted the election symbol 'hand' (Palm).
4/5/1991Kerala Assembly dissolved paving way for elections.
12/20/1866Panchkadi Banerjee, famous journalist and editor, was born.
3/13/1947Lord Louis Mountbatten took charge as Viceroy of British India. He ruled upto 14th August, 1947.