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Historical Event on 12/11/1998

Poet Pradeep (Ramchandra Divedi) died at 1850 hrs today.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/27/1931Chandrashekhar Azad of Hindustan Republican Army shot himself to avoid British police arrest at Alfred Park, Allahabad.
8/15/1990GOI declares Prophet Mohammed's birthday a national holiday.
1/23/1972Bootlegger sells wood alcohol to wedding party; 100 die in New Delhi.
1/22/1971Judge Sarv Mittra Sikri became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 25/04/1973.
4/2/1970Privy purses and special privileges of former Indian rulers abolished.
9/8/1910Saint Shri Gajanan Maharaj died.
2/20/1982The Kangla Tongbi war memorial built for 221 members of Advance Base Depot, who laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks, was finally shifted to College of Materials Management Jabalpur. The original memorial was erected on 15 Apr 1946 from local stone and the main epitaph displayed above is of black Naga stone.
3/24/1995Devchand Somaiyya, famous Table Tennis player, passed away.
9/1/1956Indian state of Tripura becomes a territory.
8/30/1979Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'.