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Historical Event on 6/12/1897

Possibly the most severe quake in history strikes Assam, shock waves felt over an area size of Europe (negligible death toll).

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4/24/1959Nehru meets the exiled Dalai Lama in Mussoorie.
4/12/1987V. P. Singh resigns as Defence Minister of India, K. C. Pant appointed in his place.
1/2/1943Vir Bhai Kotwal sacrificed his life.
11/16/1908Bommi Narsingh Reddy, famous film story writer, was born.
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8/11/1999Ramnath Parkar, former Indian opening batsman, died in Mumbai.
6/13/1992Security scam: assets of three SBI officials attached.
3/22/1942Both Congress and Muslim League refused Cripps Mission offer. Congress adopts Quit India Resolution. Cripps Commission came to India which was preceded by Sir Stephard Crips to find out a political formula for transfer of power to Indians.
1/28/1894Anandibai Prabhakar Jayawant, famous Hindi writer, was born at Baroda.
11/9/1904Panchanan Maheshwari was born in Jaipur, Rajasthan. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers with different embryological studies. He discovered species of plants like ""Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchanani