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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 11/12/1762 |
Peshwa surrendered in Battle of Alegaon. |
| 11/12/1781 |
Nagapatnam of South India was captured by the British troops. |
| 11/12/1880 |
Senapati Bapat (Pandurang Mahadev), armed freedom fighter, was born in Parnar (Maharashtra). |
| 11/12/1885 |
Firodia Kundanmal Shobhachand, politician and Gandhian, was born. |
| 11/12/1896 |
Salim Moizuddin Abdul Ali, explorer, ecologist, teacher, writer and bird watcher, was born. |
| 11/12/1929 |
First Maharastrian Governor Shripad Balwant Tambe was appointed as Governor of Nagpur. |
| 11/12/1930 |
First 'Round Table Conference' started in London. Only Muslim League party was present in the conference and there were no representative of Congress. 16 Indian Kings, 23 British representatives and other 56 Indians took part in this conference. The Muslim League consisted of Sir Agha Khan, Mohammed Ali Jauhar, Quaid-e-Azam, Sir Mohammed Shafi, Fazl-ul-Haq, Chaudhary Zafarullah and Ghulam Hussain. |
| 11/12/1939 |
Pratap Chandra Lal arrived at the training establishment at RAF Station, Risalpur. He then rose to the Air Chief Marcharl of Indian Air Force. |
| 11/12/1946 |
Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya died at the age of 85. |
| 11/12/1954 |
Bharat Reddy, cricket wicket-keeper (India 1979), was born in Madras. |
| 11/12/1958 |
Satyajit Ray gets the award for best direction at the San Francisco International Film Festival. |
| 11/12/1959 |
Keshavrao Marutirao Jedhe, great leader of Harijans and farmers, passed away. |
| 11/12/1969 |
Indira Gandhi, who was expelled from Congress for indiscipline during President elections, made a large split and formed her own Congress Party with Jagjivan Ram as President. The party is recognised as Congress (I). |
| 11/12/1984 |
Rajiv Gandhi elected Congress (I) President. |
| 11/12/1990 |
Uttar Pradesh Government raises the reservation for Backward Classes in direct recruitment to State Services from 15 to 27 per cent. |
| 11/12/1996 |
Over 350 people die in mid-air collision in Bhiwani district, Haryana. |
| 11/12/1997 |
India elected to executive board of UNESCO. |
| 11/12/1999 |
A 50-member BJP ministry led by Ram Prakash Gupta is sworn in Uttar Pradesh. |
| 11/12/2000 |
Huge voter turnout for Congress Presidential poll. Seven top BSF and IAF officials die after their MI8 helicopter crashes near Lakhpat in the Rann of Kutch in Gujarat. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/2/1997 | A division bench of Mumbai High Court holds that a married woman of a joint Hindu family can stake a claim to her father's property. |
| 12/1/1921 | Des Raj Kalia, great librarian, was born at Fazilka, Punjab. |
| 4/4/1991 | Gujarat CM Chimanbhai Patel JD (Gujarat)-to contest the elections with poll understanding with Congress (I). |
| 9/27/1999 | Harshad Mehta and three others are convicted for misappropriating surplus funds of the Maruti Udyog Ltd. |
| 3/10/1897 | Savitri Bai Phule passed away. She played a prominent role in assisting her husband Mahatma Jyotirao Govindrao Phule in education field. She taught in schools for girls and for downtroddens and untouchables. |
| 10/27/1969 | Darshansingh Pheruman died in Amritsar during the 74th day of his fast, which he had undertaken for the merger of Chandigarh in Punjab. |
| 8/5/1907 | Kashi Nath Pandey, politician and Trade Unionist, was born in Fursatpur Village. |
| 4/17/1923 | Lindsay Anderson, director (Thursday's Children), was born in Bangalore, India. |
| 1/17/1601 | Akbar, after eight month's siege, entered Asirgarh one of the strongest forts in India. |
| 7/25/1929 | Somnath Chatterjee, politician and lawyer, was born. |
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