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Historical Event on 4/12/1992
The 350-tonne Buddha statue salvaged from the Hussain Sagar where it had sunk in 1990.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/17/1989 | Colonel J. K. Bajaj was the first Indian to reach the geographic South Pole. |
| 1/20/1817 | Ram Mohun Roy started Hindu College in Calcutta with the help of Justice H. East David Hare. This college was later renamed as the Presidency College. |
| 6/24/1928 | Mrinal Keshav Gore, leader in Maharashtra, was born. |
| 4/11/2000 | Ms. Jhumpa Lahiri, an author of Indian origin, wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her debut collection of short stories 'Interpreter of Maladies'. |
| 7/2/1999 | In Jammu and Kashmir, nine people are killed by unidentified militants. |
| 11/8/1968 | Jansattak Party established. |
| 7/13/1999 | Floods claim 15 more lives in Bihar. |
| 3/1/1914 | Minto Gilbert Jhon Alieat, former viceroy of India, passed away. |
| 1/16/1916 | Amat Debananda, politician, was born in Balani village at Orissa . |
| 1/11/1986 | Union Government declares Ladakh a Scheduled Tribe area under a constitutional amendment order by the President, applying article 342 for the first time to J&K. |
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