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Historical Event on 1/12/1869

Dr. Bhagavan Das, great philosopher, freedom fighter, Hindi writer, politician and litterateur, was born at Varanasi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/5/1998Laloo Yadav, RJD president, and BSP chief Kanshi Ram launch a seven-party ""Jan Morcha"".
1/14/1969Madras State renamed Tamil Nadu.
4/22/1958Admiral R. T. Katari was appointed as the first Indian Chief of the Naval Staff.
12/6/1956Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Babasaheb), great social worker, politician and writer of Indian constitution, passed away in Bombay.
7/5/1970Indian ship capsized in Krishna River in eastern India claiming 150 lives.
12/20/1967Indira Gandhi gets powers to outlaw groups that question sovereignty.
6/4/1903Gandhiji established the weekly journal ""Indian Opinion"" organised at Phoenix farm near Durban.
10/3/1950India protests U.N. troops' crossing of 38th parallel in New York.
6/7/1998India emerges World Bank's single largest borrower with cumulative loans of 44 billion dollars.
10/27/1999P.M. Sayeed of the Congress(I) re-elected as the Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha.