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Historical Event on 12/5/1950
Sri Aurobindo Ghosh, great revolutionary, freedom fighter and teacher, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/8/1923 | Plague in India killed 1,000 in past week. |
| 10/15/1686 | Aurangzeb attacked and conqured Bijapur and this was the end of the Muslim Adilshahi's era. |
| 5/13/1996 | M. Karunanidhi (DMK) sworn in as Tamil Nadu CM. |
| 2/18/1993 | Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"". |
| 3/1/1903 | Pareshchandra Bhattacharya, former Gonerner of Indian Reserve Bank, was born. |
| 12/1/1999 | Supreme Court quashes a pending inquiry initiated by the Election Commission against former Union Finance Minister Manmohan Singh. |
| 6/26/1983 | Five hundred killed or missing as monsoon floods hit the Indian state of Gujarat. |
| 4/29/1957 | The National Civil Defence College was founded at Nagpur as the Central Emergency Relief Training Institute (CERTI). It functions as the training wing of the Emergency Relief Organisation of the Government of India. |
| 2/12/1890 | Shastri A. R. Krishna was born. |
| 2/28/1963 | Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India, passed away at Sadaqat Ashram, Patna. |
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