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Historical Event on 6/12/1972

D. G. Tendulkar, historian who had written the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/11/1926Kamala Kant Pandey was born at Varanasi. He was the first Indian agriculture graduate to win the London Exhibition Scholarship. He was elected fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1966. In 1975, he made the discovery of a ""revolutionary technique in plant breeding
1/19/1994CM decide to request Chief Election Commission to implement the photo identity card scheme in phases.
6/13/2000Yashwant Sinha, Finance Minister, announces a one-time settlement of outstanding loans below Rs. 10 crores in a move aimed at ridding the public sector banks of Rs. 51,000 crores of bad loans.
10/1/1967Indian Tourist Development Corporation Limited established.
1/1/1981This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Year for the Disabled"".
6/25/1994Bombay's former underworld don Haji Masthan Mirza passed away.
6/5/1997Brahmapuram diesel power project, KSEB's first thermal power project, situated 25 km from Kochi, Kerala commissioned.
2/23/1997176 people dead and 500 injured in a major fire at a religious congregation in Baripada, Orissa.
12/4/1993Mulayam Singh Yadav, takes over as CM of UP; Bhairon Singh Sekhawat of Congress sworn in as CM of Rajasthan.
11/27/2000After three decades, English was again made compulsory in Gujarat schools from Standard V from the next academic year.