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Historical Event on 7/12/1864

Vishvanath Kashinath Rajwade, great Historian, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/28/1963Estimated 22,000 die in another cyclone in Bay of Bengal (India).
4/2/1996Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) party registered and recognised.
6/6/1961Central Institute of Fisheries Education, a deemed university, was established in Mumbai to impart post-graduate education and training, mainly to the in-service fisheries personnel of the country to provide trained manpower for the fisheries developmental activities.
3/5/1931Mahatma Gandhi & British viceroy Lord Irwin sign a pact referred in Indian History as ""Gandhi-Irwin Pact"", after which the civic disobedience movement was taken back.
3/4/2000Geeta Mukherjee (76), veteran communist leader, died of a massive heart attack in New Delhi. Popularly known as 'Geetadi', she won every Lok Sabha election from Panskura in West Bengal since 1980.
12/24/1891Chandra Singh Garhwali, freedom fighter and revolutionary, was born in Masson, Patti Chauthan, Tehsil Thalisain, District Garhwal.
3/1/1985Rajendra Sethia, the biggest personal bankrupt ever, arrested in New Delhi.
10/16/1945Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) established.
7/26/1994Government rejects JPC report on securities scandal.
5/28/1997Former Union Ministers Arjun Singh, N.D. Tiwari, R.K. Dhawan and Madhavrao Scindia discharged in the Jain hawala case by special judge V.B. Gupta.