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Historical Event on 11/12/1996

Over 350 people die in mid-air collision in Bhiwani district, Haryana.

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2/7/2000Kamaluddin Ahmed, former APCC(I) president and four times Congress MP, joins the BJP.
4/1/1969India's first Atomic Energy Reactor started at Tarapore.
3/29/1999A massive earthquake in the Garhwal region of Uttar Pradesh in the inner Himalayas claims 85 lives and more than 130 injured.
3/31/1930Shyamji Krishna Varma, freedom fighter, nationalist and patriot, passed away in Geneva.
6/12/1891Gandhiji sailed for India and reached in July.
9/4/1987Roop Kanwar, an 18-year-old girl, commits Sati (burning herself in her husband's funeral pyre) in Deorala in Rajasthan.
2/24/1899Maheshchandra Burjorjee Bilimoria, film distributor, was born.
5/19/1975Farm truck packed with wedding party run over by a train, killing 66 in truck, at 40 miles south of Pune.
5/19/1796Game protection law restricts encroachment on Indian hunting grounds.
10/31/1999The Ram Janmabhoomi Trust president ends fast in support of his eight-point demands including improvement of 'puja' and 'darshan' arrangements of 'Ram Lala' at the temple.