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Historical Event on 1/12/1901
Umashankar Dikshit, senior leader of Indira Congress, was born.
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| 4/7/2000 | The Delhi police unearth a multicrore cricket betting and match- fixing racket involving five South African cricketers, including the captain Hansie Cronje. A Delhi-based Indian operator Rajesh Kalra put behind bars. |
| 5/17/1976 | 4 Indians successfully skied down from the slope of Trishul peak. |
| 3/2/1938 | Chandrakumar Agarwala, assamia poet, passed away. |
| 5/20/1932 | Bipinchandra Ramchandra Pal, powerful journalist and revolutionary freedom fighter, passed away. He was amongst the trio which was known as ""Lal - Bal - Pal"" during the freedom struggle. He started a newspaper called ""Swaraj"" for the Indians in England. He also edited several other newspapers like ""Tribune"", ""New India"", ""Vande Mataram"", ""Swaraj"", ""Hindu Review"", ""Democrat"", ""Independent Bengali"", etc. |
| 4/17/1946 | Shri Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Shastri, greatest social reformer, freedom fighter, educationist, politician, master, scholar of Sanskrit and President of India, passed away. |
| 5/14/1998 | India will not sign CTBT unconditionally, says the Prime Minister. |
| 6/4/1989 | Melville de Mellow, Eminent broadcaster, died. |
| 6/10/1890 | Sunday introduced as a weekly holiday. |
| 5/29/1933 | Kishorilal Goswami, famous Hindi novelist, passed away. |
| 8/9/1969 | Ochterlony Memorial in Calcutta was renamed as 'Shahid Minar'. |
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