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Historical Event on 3/12/1941

Chinese engineers leave to survey a route for the proposed 1,000-mile-long highway from Ningyuan, China to Assam, India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/16/1922Raunaq Singh, great industrialist and philanthropist, was born at Daska.
4/12/1917Mulvantrai Himatlal Mankad better known as ""Vinoo Mankad"", cricketer (India's greatest all-rounder to his time), was born at Jamnagar.
1/12/1955Pandit Baburao Vishnu Paradkar, eminent Hindi editor and veteran journalist, passed away.
3/26/1989Eighth Antarctica Expedition returns after erecting India's second permanent manned station 'Maitri'.
8/15/1918Hans Kumar Tiwari, famous poet and translater, was born.
2/14/1925Mohan Dhariya, politician and nature lover, was born.
10/6/1779Elphinston, historian and administrator of Mumbai province, was born.
3/22/199957 prisoners in Indian and Pakistan jails are repatriated to their respective motherlands at the Attari-Wagah joint checkpost on the border in Amristar district.
1/11/1996Canadian PM Jean Chretien visits New Delhi.
10/16/193635 killed in Hindu-Muslim riots at Bombay.