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Historical Event on 7/12/1932
The 16,000-foot Shyok ice dam in the Himalayas bursts flooding the Indus Valley at Kashmir.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/12/1906 | Gandhiji support the ""Home Rule"" for India in the name of ''justice and for good of humanity"". |
| 6/4/1994 | Army successfully test-fires the short range surface-to-surface missile, 'Prithvi'. |
| 3/3/1996 | Haryana govt. bans liquor vends and bars in rural areas. |
| 7/29/1911 | Mohan Bagan became the first Indian football team to win the I.F.A. Shield. |
| 7/29/1911 | Ibrahim Lodi (1517-26) succeeded the throne of Delhi, after the death of his father Sikandar Lodi. |
| 8/2/1922 | Gangaprasad Birla, great industrialist, was born. |
| 12/8/1999 | Furore in the Lok Sabha over RJD President Laloo Prasad Yadav's daughter topping the MBBS exam. |
| 8/27/1910 | Mother Teresa, [Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu], nobel Prize awardee and social worker, was born in Skopje, Macedonia in Yugoslavia. |
| 1/2/1947 | Mahatma Gandhi met Lord Bevin, the personal emissary of British Prime Minister Winston Churchil, in Delhi. Beven is reported to have told the great man, ''Eighteen languages, 500 dialects, some 30 religions, a million Gods and Goddesses, 300 million individuals, an infinity of castes and sub castes, and a population (that is) practically illiterate and half of which (are) beggars or thieves... Good luck, sir! Such a nation is ungovernable! It'd take you centuries to get anywhere!''. Gandhiji wrapped his large, white shawl a little more closely around him, and modestly replied, 'India has eternity before her.. and ""All around me is utter darkness"". |
| 8/10/1758 | Marathas won the Atak. |
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