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Historical Event on 11/12/1885

Firodia Kundanmal Shobhachand, politician and Gandhian, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/2/2000Justice A. M. Ahmadi, former Chief Justice of India, appointed Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award.
5/17/1775Marathas were badly mauled in the battle of Arras by Col. Keating in the first Anglo - Maratha war.
7/10/1997Malleswari earns India's first gold medal in Asian weightlifting championship in Beijing.
9/23/1983Supreme Court upholds execution of criminals through hanging by rope.
6/4/1972First Environment Day.
1/26/2000Mr. K. Vadivel Raj gets the 1999 Kabir Puraskar for rescuing 11 persons of another community during caste violence in September 1998 in a village in Tamil Nadu.
2/18/1911Under the auspices of the British Army, French pilot Henry Pequet makes the first official airmail flight from Allahabad to Naini Junction.
1/19/1919Omprakash Mehra, former Indian Air Chief Marshal and former Governor of Maharashtra, was born.
10/5/1997Leander-Mahesh win China Open ATP Tour doubles event.
8/8/1948Dr. Yellapragada Subbarow, saintly scientist and nobel prize winner, passed away at Pearl River, New York.