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Historical Event on 6/12/1975
Drugaprasad Dhar, former deputy president of Planning Commission, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/12/1975 | Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)-I, Portuguese navigator, arrived in India. He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to Calicut, Kerala with three vessels and was the first Westerner to sail to India from Europe. |
| 3/29/1849 | Maharaj Dulip Singh left the throne of Punjab that once belonged to his late father Ranjit Singh and was then occupied by the East India Company. The Britishers had captured it after defeating the Sikh Army at Amritsar. |
| 8/14/1968 | Week-long flood death toll reaches 1,000. |
| 1/1/1920 | P.M. Nadagouda, politician, was born at Mysore, Chitwadgi. |
| 5/13/1918 | Balasarswati, famous dancer of Bharat Natyam, was born. |
| 3/28/1991 | IAF men die in an air crash in Bangalore. |
| 10/14/1884 | Lala Har Dayal, revolutionary, nationalist and freedom fighter, was born at Delhi. |
| 5/2/1922 | Kedarnath Modi, great Industrialist in Maharashtra, was born. |
| 5/22/1996 | Ravi Shastri appointed UNICEF's national ambassador for children. |
| 12/20/1992 | BJP launches campaign to oust Rao government; Vajpayee goes on fast. |
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