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Historical Event on 12/6/1732
Warren Hastings, the first Governor-General of East India Company in India, was born in Churchill village of Oxfordshire in UK.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/18/1803 | Second Anglo-Maratha war under Sir Arthur Wellesley resulted in a crushing defeat of the Marathas at Assaye. The British Christians captured Delhi and acquired control of large parts of India. |
| 6/23/1935 | Ram Kolarkar, famous marathi author and editor, was born. |
| 11/24/1948 | Ashok Gandotra, cricketer (Two Tests for India 1969), was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
| 8/21/1931 | Pandit Vishnu Dingambar Paluskar, famous singer and the blind musician of Maharashtra, passed away. |
| 9/3/1906 | Prithviraj Kapoor, veteran film actor, was born in Peshawar. His first film was 'Challenge' (1929). He is the founder of Prithvi Theatre in Bombay. He is remembered for his immortal role of Akbar is film 'Mugul-E-Azam'. |
| 3/14/1990 | Akash' missile tested successfully. |
| 2/25/1993 | BJP rally in New Delhi foiled. |
| 5/22/1996 | United Front prime ministerial candidate H.D. Deve Gowda unanimously elected leader of the Front's parliamentary party. |
| 8/12/1979 | Heavy rains resulted in bursting of a dam thus causing floods in Moorvi and Lilapur in Gujarat, killing over 1,335 people. |
| 12/27/1998 | Nobel laureate Prof. Amartya Sen unveils his plans to set up a charity trust with the award money for development of education and health in India and Bangladesh. |
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