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Historical Event on 12/31/1706
Francois Martin, founder of Pondicherry and was its first Governor General, died. He founded Pondicherry, the future capital of French India in 1674.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/26/1975 | Anti-government demonstrations held in Gujarat, defying the emergency law prohibiting such demonstrations. |
| 4/6/1993 | Divya Bharati, famous Hindi film actress (Deewana), died at the age of 19. |
| 6/12/1990 | CPI(M) accuses Communist Party of Soviet Union of departing from the basic ideology of Marxism-Leninism in the name of correcting past distortions. |
| 8/11/1908 | Khudiram 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. |
| 2/18/1836 | Swami Ramakrishna Paramahansa(1836-86), was born early morning in Kamarpukur village in Hooghly district, West Bengal. His real name was Gadadhar Chatterji. He was God-intoxicated Bengali Shakta saint, Guru of Swami Vivekananda. He exemplified the bhakti dimension of 'Shakta Universalism'. |
| 6/7/1965 | Ashutosh Kali, great revolutionary, passed away. |
| 11/10/1991 | South Africa's first cricket One-day international since 1970 vs India. |
| 10/10/1977 | 61 people died in an accident between a passenger train and a freight train at Naini. |
| 12/10/1967 | Earthquake hit Koyna Nagar. |
| 2/25/1970 | Mannathu Padmanabhan, great social worker and president of the Tranvancore Devasworn Board, passed away. |
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