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Historical Event on 2/12/1794

Alijabahadar Mahadaji Shinde passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/3/1999Dr. M. S. Swaminathan, well-known agricultural scientist, is selected for the UNESCO Gandhi gold medal.
12/12/1921Gandhi organizes a complete boycott of Prince of Wales's visit to Allahabad.
4/29/1979Raja Mahendra Pratap, great revolutionary freedom fighter, passed away in New Delhi at the age of 93.
7/14/1854Mahendranath Gupt, follower of Ramkrishna Paramahans, was born.
2/4/1974Satyendra Nath Bose, a noted mathematician, professor and physicist, passed away at Calcutta. He contributed greatly to statictical mechanics, the electromagnetic properties of ionosphere, the therories of X-ray crystallography and thermoluminescence, and unified field theory. Bose instituted ""Planck's Law and the Hypothesis of Light Quana"" in 1924.
5/11/1985Booby (Doll) trap bomb kills 86 people in India.
10/31/1990Hindus flee Muslim prorsecution in Kashmir Valley.
2/23/1843Narendranath Sen, famous journalist, was born.
6/13/2000Major General Manuel Saavedra of Uruguay appointed Chief Military observer of the U.N. Mission monitoring the LoC in Kashmir.
1/14/1964Bapu Nadkarni bowled 32-27-5-0 vs England, 21 maiden overs in a row.