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Historical Event on 3/12/1942

British troops vacate the Andaman in Gulf of Bengal.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/10/1964Olympics opened at Tokyo
2/7/1990Krishan Kant became the Governor of Andhra Pradesh till 21/08/1997.
4/5/1930Mahatma Gandhi reached Dandi, a small costal village in Gujarat, after travelling 385 kms with 78 followers to break the recently imposed ""Salt Law"". This event is known as 'Dandi March' and was started from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad.
5/7/1973Shivkumar Batalvi, famous Punjabi poet, died.
9/2/1976Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar, famous marathi story writer, novelist and Gyanpeeth Awardee, passed away.
12/10/1913The Nobel prize for literature was awarded this year to Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali poet from India.
10/31/1984Rajiv Gandhi sworn in as Prime Minister of India by Gyani Zail Singh, President of India, at New Delhi. He held this office till December 1, 1989.
9/8/1993Andhra cabinet reshuffled by dropping four legislators and bringing in 16 new faces.
8/6/1997Army confirms social activist Sanjay Ghose's death who was abducted by ULFA.
3/3/1931Gandhi and Viceroy Irwin sign Delhi Pact giving Indians right to make salt if civil disobedience stops.