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Historical Event on 2/12/1995

Maramon Centenary Convention, (the biggest Christian gathering in Asia) begins in Kerala.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/14/1985M.C. Sharma was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 10-12-1985.
4/4/1938A. M. Chakrabarty was born in Sainthia at West Bengal. He found that under the optimum conditions of time, temperature and nutrients the Hydrocarbon-eating "qualities'' of four diffrent strains of bacteria could be transferred into one. He also showed that this super-strain of bacteria reproduces itself.
3/1/1916Habib Rahman, great Architect, was born at Calcutta.
5/21/1996M.S. Sushama Dande (Shiv Sena) elected first woman mayor of New Mumbai along with Savitri Patil (Shiv Sena) as Deputy Mayor.
11/3/1988Indian armed forces mounted special operations to help the Indian Ocean archipelago of the Maldives and dealt with the 150 sea-borne invaders who stormed Maldivian Capital, Male and soughted to overthrow the democratically elected Government of the Maldives.
6/30/1966Judge K. Subba Rao became the Chief Justice of India. He held this office till 11/04/1967.
8/11/1908Khudiram Bose was hanged on this day in Central Jail at Mujaffarpur, Bihar at the age of 19 years. He along with Prafulla Chaki had planned to bomb the carriage supposed to be carrying Kingsford, unfortunately he was betrayed and was caught and finally was sentenced to death and hanged. This day is observed as ""Martyr's Day"" in memory of the great freedom fighter. Even today the soul stirring songs composed in his honour are sung by Bengali folk-singers.
9/21/1746French expeditionary army occupies Labourdonnais & Dupleix Madras.
10/10/1964Ravi Shankar performs at Town Hall in New York.
1/27/1984First unit of Atomic Energy Production Centre started at Kalpakkam.