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Historical Event on 12/1/1885
Dattatreya Balkrishna Kalelkar, famous Gandhian Gujrathi llitterateur and educationist, was born at Satara in Maharashtra.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/15/1992 | Talwinder Singh Parmar, the Babbar Khalsa founder who masterminded the Kanishka jumbo explosion of 1985, was shot by security forces in Punjab. |
| 10/9/1994 | Kamal Bose, great photographer, died. |
| 12/24/1921 | Rabindranath Tagore established ""Visva Bharati"" at Santiniketan with Brojendra Nath Seal as the chief guest. |
| 6/23/1985 | Air India Jumbo Jet Boeing 747 'Kanishka' which was travelling to Mumbai from Montreal crashed into the Atlantic Ocean after explosion near Ireland. 329 people on board died. |
| 5/26/1931 | One hundred miners were trapped beneath a blazing mine. It was thought that there were unlikely to be any survivors in Madras. |
| 3/16/1993 | Bomb blast in a multi-storey building in Calcutta kills 70 people. |
| 12/31/1941 | Milkha Singh Govindsingh Amritsar, cricketer (brother of Kripal Singh, Indian batsman in 4 Tests), was born in Madras. |
| 3/24/1981 | Bombay beat Delhi by an innings and 46 runs to win the Ranji Trophy. |
| 5/28/1996 | 13-day-old BJP-led minority coalition govt. headed by A.B. Vajpayee quits at the end of a two-day debate on a motion of confidence. |
| 1/21/1978 | Nilmoni Phukan, greatest social reformer, prolific writer, poet, editor of 'Dainik Batori', journalist and lawyer, passed away. He participated in the Quit India Movement for which he was arrested. |
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