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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
5/31/1926Probir ""Khokhan"" Sen, cricket wicket-keeper (India in late 40's/early 50's), was born.
8/18/1900Vijayalakshmi Pandit, first woman President of U.N.O. General Assembly, was born.
11/7/1912Chithira Tirunal Bala Rama Varma, social reformer, was born at Travancore.
12/21/2000Women's Bill put off again.
9/29/1971Cyclone & tidal wave off Bay of Bengal kills as many as 10,000 people.
4/15/1963Manoj Prabhakar, cricketer (Indian opening batsman & opening bowler), was born in Ghaziabad.
8/29/1956India gets $ 360 million loan as food aid.
6/27/1967First Indian made AVRO aircraft passenger Plane HS748 handed over to Indian Airlines.
10/21/1934Loknayak Jayprakash Narayan and his friends established the 'Congress Socialist Party' and Acharya Narendra Dev was its President and JP was its Gen. Secretary.
1/17/1952The pension work of CDA (Factories), Calcutta and the Defence civilians in ordnance factories was transferred to the office of the CDA (P), Allahabad.