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Historical Event on 1/12/1906

Pandit Mahadeo Shastri Joshi, dictionary creator, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/23/1919Subhadra Joshi, freedom fighter, was born. She took active participation in Salt and non cooperation movement. She also motivated the freedom movement through her newspaper ""Hamara Sangram"".
7/15/1987Rajiv Gandhi,Congress President, expels V. C. Shukla, Arif Mohammed Khan and Arun Nehru from Congress for anti-party activities.
10/2/1906Raja Ravi Verma died at Attingal near Trivandrum, Kerala. He is remembered for his artistic work in 'Ram Panchayatan', 'Vishwamitra-Menaka', 'Shakuntala writing a letter', 'Shiv Parvati'. A commemorative stamp was issued by the Postal Department on April 29, 1971 in his honour.
10/14/1998Prof. Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. He became the sixth Indian, by birth or citizenship, to win a Nobel.
1/17/1997Government rules out granting dual citizenship to NRIs.
7/19/1965Batukeshwar Dutt, great revolutionary, passed away.
5/30/1950Devdutta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar, great historian and archaeologist, passed away.
6/19/1995India and US officially launch Indo-US Commercial Alliance during US Trade Secretary's visit.
1/7/1858The hearing of the case began that was filed against the last Mughal Emperor Bahadhur Shah II for taking part in the first armed revolution against the British.
10/16/1978Test debut of Kapil Dev, India vs Pakistan, at Faisalabad.