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Historical Event on 7/12/1970
Major flood in Alaknanda river resulted in sweeping of buses and claimed 600 lives.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/3/1975 | Lalit Narayan Mishra, great freedom fighter, politician, leader, member of the Lok Sabha and Minister of Railways, died at a Railway Hospital in Danapur due to a bomb blast at Samastipur Railway Station a day earlier. |
| 12/1/1990 | Vijayalaxmi Pandit, first Indian Lady Ambassador and Politician, passed away at the age of 90 years. |
| 7/31/1902 | Keshav Shankar Pillai, great writer and Padma Bhushan awardee, was born at Kayamkulam in Kerala. |
| 8/29/1975 | Adinath Lahiri, leading geologist, passed away. |
| 11/12/1999 | A 50-member BJP ministry led by Ram Prakash Gupta is sworn in Uttar Pradesh. |
| 6/16/1990 | Bombay gets 42 cm rainfall, the century's highest. The previous high of 41 cm was recorded on 18, 1986. |
| 1/17/1905 | Dattaraya Ramchandra Kaprekar was born at Dahanu near Bombay. He discovered the shortest possible routes to solve mathematical problems. In 1927, he won the wrangler R. P. Paranjpe Mathematical Prize for an Original Piece of work in mathematics. He discovered 'Kaprekar Constant' in 1946. It is the number ""6174"". The constant 6174 is arrived at and this number then generates itself into one set of numbers called ""self numbers"" that is also known by his name. Kaprekar passed away in 1988. |
| 2/25/1962 | India Congress Party wins elections. |
| 11/8/1991 | K.P.S. Gill reappointed DGP in Punjab. |
| 3/3/1948 | B. S. Munje, founder of Bhosla Military School, passed away. |
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