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Historical Event on 2/12/1985
Fire aboard M.V. Chidambaram, an Indian liner sailing from Singapore to Madras, killed 34 people.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/13/1912 | Shriman Narayan, educationist, administrator and diplomat, was born in Etawah, U.P. |
| 6/5/1995 | A three-week long, the first ever Indo-US joint army training exercise begins. |
| 6/12/1897 | Possibly the most severe quake in history strikes Assam, shock waves felt over an area size of Europe (negligible death toll). |
| 2/18/1992 | Vasantrao Karnik, great journalist, passed away. |
| 1/25/1950 | The post of the Governor General of India was abolished. |
| 8/13/1638 | Durgadas Rathore, social reformer, was born at Salwa. |
| 3/9/1897 | Fans start calling the team 'Indians' (in 1915 it became official). |
| 12/4/1924 | Gateway of India was inagurated by Lord Riding. |
| 4/10/1875 | Swami Dayanand Saraswati established the Arya Samaj at Bombay and in 1877 in Lahore. |
| 12/11/1976 | Aliyawar Jung, former Governor of Maharashtra, died. |
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