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Historical Event on 2/12/1794
Alijabahadar Mahadaji Shinde passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/2/1987 | Geet Sethi retains the World Amateur Billiards title. |
| 5/23/1931 | Sharad Joshi, famous Hindi poet, playwright and journalist, was born. |
| 8/7/1947 | BEST services were started by Mumbai Mahanagarpalika. |
| 7/11/2000 | Amrita Pritam, noted litterateur, honoured with the highest award for Punjabi literature for the century:""Shatabdi Samman"". |
| 6/18/1896 | Cota Ramaswami, cricketer (Davis Cup for India 1922, Test 1936), was born in Madras. |
| 3/24/1998 | 200 people are killed in a tornado on both sides of the West Bengal-Orissa border. The toll includes 80 from West Bengal's Midnapore district. |
| 4/5/1979 | First Naval Museum of India established in Bombay. |
| 3/31/1994 | U.R. Rao, retiring ISRO Chairman, announces agreement with Russia for supplying 7 cryogenic engines. |
| 9/4/1927 | World fliers reach Karachi, India. |
| 9/4/1983 | INSAT-1B runs into snag, its solar array fails to deploy fully. |
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