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Historical Event on 12/11/1929
Subhash Pandharinath ""Fergie"" Gupte, cricketer (brilliant Indian leg-spinner), was born in Bom
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| 8/17/1761 | William Carey, the first English missionary to India, was born. He taught at the newly founded Fort William College at Calcutta from 1801 till his death and helped found the Serampore Press, which made the Bible accessible to over 300 million people. |
| 6/24/1897 | Padmashree Pandit Omkarnath Thakur, famous music director of Gwalior Gharana, was born at Gujrat. |
| 3/27/1992 | India signs Friendship Treaty with Ukraine. |
| 12/28/1990 | Following the war threat as the January 15 deadline set by UN for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait approaches, GOI advise Indians in Gulf to send back their families to India. |
| 9/1/1893 | Kashinath Tryambak Telang, first Maharashtrian Chief Justice of Mumbai High Court, died. |
| 9/1/1893 | Saint Gora Kumbhar, an intense devotee of the deity Vitthal at Pandharpur, took Samadhi in Ter village in Osmanabad Zilla, near Latur. |
| 1/23/1954 | Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad declares that the State of Kashmir is a part of India. |
| 5/31/1970 | Indira Gandhi called for international help as the civil war in Bangladesh, or East Pakistan, had turned two million people into refugees. Many of them were suffering from cholera and smallpox. The authorities of West Pakistan refused to care for them, and India couldn't afford to. |
| 2/28/1835 | Medical College was started in Calcutta and it was officially opened on Feb 20. |
| 11/3/2000 | BCCI suspends five cricketers -Mohammed Azaruddin, Ajay Sharma, Ajay Jadeja, Nayan Mongia and Manoj Prabhakar--for a period of 15 days after the CBI report. |
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