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Historical Event on 12/7/1825
First Steam Engine Ship ""Enterprise"" reached Calcutta.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/27/1997 | South African President Nelson Mandela arrives in New Delhi on official visit. |
| 3/9/1951 | Ustad Zakir Hussain, famous Tabla player, was born. |
| 5/18/1901 | Nibaran Chandra Chakrabarti, great poet and Hindi writer, was born in Brahmangaon, (Dacca). |
| 7/30/1997 | Madras High Court restrains, by an interim injunction, the foreign universities/institutions having offices in India from awarding or conferring any degree on Indian students. |
| 11/22/1988 | Baba Amte wins U.N. Human Rights Award. |
| 11/13/1780 | Maharaja Ranjit Singh, ""Lion of Punjab"", was born. |
| 4/30/1977 | Nine Congress-ruled states placed under President's rule. Janata Party formed. |
| 7/3/1941 | Adoor Gopalakrishnan, cinematographer (Kathapurushan, Mathulikal), was born. |
| 10/22/1764 | The Battle of Buxar was fought between armies of Mir Qasim, the Nawab of Bengal; the Nawab of Awadh; and the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II and British East India Company led by Hector Munro. |
| 5/15/2000 | Ghulam Hassan Bhat, Jammu and Kashmir Minister of State for Power, dies in a powerful IED explosion near Mandipore in Anantnag. |
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