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Historical Event on 12/4/1888
Romesh Chandra Majumdar, great Bengali historian, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/1/1995 | Open General Licence (OGL) list expanded from 43 to 75 as import of consumer goods liberalised. |
| 7/8/1996 | T.N. Seshan, Chief Election Commissioner, wins Magsaysay award. |
| 5/13/1648 | Redfort construction was completed |
| 9/7/1968 | Benipuri Sharma, famous Hindi novelist, died. |
| 9/7/1968 | Amir Timur of Timur Lang invaded India with 92 squadrons of horses and 90,000 cavalry and reached the banks of Sindhu river near Atak city (now in Pakistan). He then attacked Delhi because its Muslim Sultanate was too tolerant of Hindu idolatry. A Mongolian follower of Sufism, he was one of the most ruthless of all conquerors. Timur crossed the Indus River at Attock (now in Pakistan) on 24 September 1398. |
| 12/1/2000 | An armed intruder snipes at naval commando Satvir Singh at the official residence of the Navy Chief Admiral Sushil Kumar in the high- security Rajaji Marg area in New Delhi. The Navy sets up an enquiry board to probe the incident. |
| 9/15/1947 | Gandhi deplores the idea of population transfer. |
| 8/29/1947 | Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar became the President of Constitution Council. |
| 1/16/1996 | Union Cabinet Minister V.C. Shukla, Balram Jhakar, Madhavrao Scindia, and others including BJP President L.K. Advani, Arjun Singh and Devi Lal chargesheeted in the multi-crore Jain `Hawala' case. CBI seeks sanction to prosecute them. L.K. Advani resigns from Lok Sabha membership. |
| 2/21/1995 | The plan outlay for Andhra Pradesh for 1995-96 fixed at Rs. 3.159 crores. |
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