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Historical Event on 1/12/1924

Gandhiji was operated on for appendicitis in Sassoon Hospital, Pune.

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4/16/1966Nandlal Bose, who established modern painting in Bengal, passed away.
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11/9/2000The 17-day old Manohar Parrikar led BJP Government in Goa wins the trust vote.
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9/10/1920Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was born at Hadagali in Karnataka. In 1945 he put forward the ""theory of estimation"" in statistics. His formulae and therorems, for instance the ""Cramer-Rao inequality"", ""The Fisher-Rao theorem"" and ""Rao-Black Wellistaion"" are now part of any standard textbook of statistics. For his significant contributions, Rao received the S. S. Bhatnagar Award, the Meghnad Saha Medal and the Guy medal.
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