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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 |
| 2/25/1840 | Vinayak Konddev Oak, Marathi litteratewur, was born. |
| 9/5/1846 | Sir Charles Metkaf, Governor General of East India Company, died. |
| 1/8/1993 | FERA restrictions removed, resident Indians allowed to keep as much as $500. |
| 8/11/1908 | Khudiram Bose was hanged on this day in Central Jail at Mujaffarpur, Bihar at the age of 19 years. He along with Prafulla Chaki had planned to bomb the carriage supposed to be carrying Kingsford, unfortunately he was betrayed and was caught and finally was sentenced to death and hanged. This day is observed as ""Martyr's Day"" in memory of the great freedom fighter. Even today the soul stirring songs composed in his honour are sung by Bengali folk-singers. |
| 6/13/1757 | Clive marched to Murshidabad against Nawab Siraj ud-Daulah along with the force comprising of 1800 British and 2000 Indian soldiers with eight canons. |
| 9/6/1889 | Sarat Chandra Bose, freedom fighter, journalist and leader, was born. |
| 2/1/1929 | Jyotirbhaskaracharya Jayant Salgaonkar was born. |
| 3/6/1775 | Raghunath Rao signed treaty of Surat with British ending the first Anglo-Maratha War. |
| 6/6/1867 | Baba Kharak Singh, freedom fighter, was born at Sialkot. |
| 2/21/1953 | Tillaya Dam and Bokaro Power Station opened by the PM. |
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