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Historical Event on 4/12/1992
The 350-tonne Buddha statue salvaged from the Hussain Sagar where it had sunk in 1990.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
1/11/1921 | Vasudevacharya Kerur, famous Kannad novelist, drama writer and journalist, passed away. |
7/5/1916 | Indian Women's University was established at Hingne near Poona by Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve with just four students. After 1920, it was renamed as Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Indian Women's University. |
11/19/1985 | Lall Singh, cricketer (one Test for India 1932), passed away. |
9/10/2000 | Marat Safin wins the men's singles in the US open championship. |
1/22/1990 | The International Literacy Campaign was launced in the country by the Prime Minister at a national function held at New Delhi. (8-9-90). |
8/5/1986 | Vellupillai Prabakaran, Tamil rebel leader, died. The vision of secession for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority may have come to an end. But so, too, might the violence that the nation had endured. Today, Tamil rebel leader Vellupillai Prabakaran accepted the peace accord signed last week by India and Sri Lanka. Prabakaran surrendered to Indian forces and his men turned over their weapons. The pact is seen as a compromise by the co-signers. But to the dejected Tamil leader, who has fought since childhood for a Tamil victory, it was a stinging defeat. The treaty creates an autonomous multi-religious zone in the eastern and northern provinces. The rebels dreamed and passed away for a separate state of their own. |
1/14/1969 | Madras State renamed Tamil Nadu. |
11/2/1871 | Kashinath Raghunath Mitra, famous editor of monthly magzine 'Manoranjan', was born. |
3/21/1939 | Gandhi calls on world to disarm, thinks Hitler would follow. |
10/29/1999 | L .K. Advani, Home Minister, says the Centre is in touch with cyclone-hit states. |
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