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Historical Event on 1/12/1918

C. Ramchandra (Chitalkar), famous film music director, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/4/1939Lala Har Dayal, revolutionary, nationalist and freedom fighter, passed away at Philadelphia.
1/1/1979This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Year of the Child"".
5/27/1857Nana Sahib was captured at Kanpur.
11/9/1997Film Federation of India chooses Malayalam film 'Guru' as official entry for Oscar awards.
9/30/1996Centre gives its consent to Tamil Nadu government's decision to rename Madras as Chennai.
12/23/1995The crew of the seized aircraft in Bombay confess dropping of arms at Purulia.
7/21/1988Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1C) launched. This is operational multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite. It served for only one and a half years. It was launched by European Ariane launch vehicle Ariane-3.
7/26/1891Rajendralal Mitra (Raja), famous Bengali ancient researcher, passed away.
9/29/1942The British police shot Matangini Hazra, a 72-year old woman of Tamluk town in Midnapur district, when she was leading the flag at Tamluk in August movement procession.
12/8/1999Dr. Shankar K. Pal of the Indian Statistical Institute selected for the G.D. Birla Award for 1999.