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Historical Event on 2/12/1882
Satyendranath Dutt, famous Bengali poet, was born.
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| 12/6/2000 | The Supreme Court gives a clean chit to former Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao upholding the trial court's order, and discharging him and former Union Minister K.K. Tewary from the 'St.Kitts forgery case'. |
| 10/13/1971 | Hitesh Modi, cricketer (Kenyan left-handed batsman 1996 World Cup), was born. |
| 4/14/1990 | L. P. Poarbosa sworn in as CM of Goa. |
| 7/18/1987 | Amitabh Bachhan resigns his Lok Sabha membership. |
| 3/18/1944 | Azad Hind Fauj entered India (Japanese army) from the border of Burma and invaded north eastern India. |
| 5/26/1906 | Benjamin Peary Pal, internationally famous scientist of Indian agriculture, was born at Mukundpur, Punjab. In 1929, he went to Cambridge to do research on wheat and he returned to Burma with a Ph.D. five years later. In 1933, he got a research job with what is now known as the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi. In 1965, Pal became Director General of the newly founded Indian Council of Agricultural Research in New Delhi. He has written several books on roses, the most popular being ""The Rose in India"". |
| 6/10/1928 | Papan Ramchand Panjabi, cricket test umpire for 7 tests from 1978-81, was born in Mumbai. |
| 3/21/1996 | PSLV-D3 launched successfully. |
| 10/19/1920 | Prakashchandra Sethi, former central minister, was born. |
| 11/30/1896 | Gandhiji sails for South Africa with wife and children. |
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