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December

What Happened this Day in India History Events.

2011 The country's famous nuclear physicist PK Iyengar died.
1911 The first indigenous bank, Central Bank of India, was founded by Sorabji Pochkhanwala.
1898 The chemists Pierre and Marie Curie discovered radium.
2008 Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan were included in the list of 50 powerful people of the world by US magazine News Bik.
2009 The first meeting of the Finance Committee and Executive Board (BoG) of Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi was held.
1974 INS Satavahana, the country's first vessel to offer submarine training, was inducted into the ship fleet at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.
2012  "Gangnam Style" became the first video to be viewed one billion times on YouTube.