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Historical Event on 7/12/1896
Dangambarrao G. Bindu, politician and father of Hydrabad Liberation Party, was born.
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| 2/22/1997 | Jockey Mark Gallagher shot at and injured in Bangalore. |
| 9/12/1899 | Vibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, world famous Bengali novelist, was born. |
| 9/23/1952 | Anshuman Dattajirao Gaekwad, batsman in 40 Tests (1974-85), was born in Bombay. |
| 1/26/1995 | Three powerful bombs rip through a celebration at a sports stadium in Kashmir as the State Governor addresses the crowd;7 people killed and 47 injured. |
| 2/2/1967 | US President Johnson orders consignment of 2 mil. tons of food grains to be sent to India. |
| 3/18/1919 | Rowlatt Act, intended to perpetuate the extraordinary powers enjoyed by the Government under Lord Chelmsford during the war, provokes countrywide protests. This Rowlatt Act was forced instead of 1915 Indian Security Act which reduced freedom of Indian people. |
| 10/15/1992 | Talwinder Singh Parmar, the Babbar Khalsa founder who masterminded the Kanishka jumbo explosion of 1985, was shot by security forces in Punjab. |
| 1/1/1892 | Mahadev Haribhai Desai, follower of Gandhiji, was born in Surat district. |
| 10/28/1888 | Gandhiji reaches London. Lives on vegatarian diet. Takes lessons in dancing and music for a short time, thinking they are necessary parts of a gentleman's equipment. |
| 8/9/1996 | Unofficial estimates put black money in the country at Rs. 70,000 crore, i.e. 6\% of GDP. |
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