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Historical Event on 5/12/1923
Meera Mukherjee, great artist, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/11/1980 | Romesh Chandra Majumdar, great Bengali historian, passed away. |
| 5/15/1729 | Khanderao Dabhade, great warrior in Maratha kingdom, passed away. |
| 12/23/1912 | Rash Behari Ghosh and Sachin Sanyal threw a bomb at Viceroy Lord Hardinge II in Delhi. He had come to Delhi on an elephant for the initiation of the new capital. The Viceroy was injured in the bomb blast. |
| 12/10/1923 | Madhav Gururao Kulkarni, great author and educationist, was born in Rani Bennur, Dharwar. |
| 5/19/1992 | Arjuna award for Tennis star Leander Paes and Hockey champion Jagbir Singh. |
| 3/26/1938 | Laxminath Bezbarua, great littearateur of modern Assamia language, passed away. |
| 5/18/1945 | Bhagwat Subramaniam Chandrasekhar, cricketer (brilliant Indian leggie 1964-79), was born in Banglore. He received Arjun Award and Padmashree awards in 1972. |
| 2/28/1936 | Kamla Nehru, wife of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social worker, passed away near Lausanne in Switzerland. |
| 3/25/1983 | Chalpati Rao, great journalist, passed away. |
| 1/1/1987 | United Nations General Assembly announced this year to be observed as the ""International Year of Shelter for the Homeless"". (5-10-87). |
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