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Historical Event on 12/6/1732
Warren Hastings, the first Governor-General of East India Company in India, was born in Churchill village of Oxfordshire in UK.
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| 4/20/1992 | U. K. Kanitkar, famous scientist, and professor, passed away. |
| 7/21/1911 | Umashankar Jethalal Joshi, famous Gujarati poet, Hindi writer and educationist, was born at Bamna in Gujarat. |
| 11/5/1999 | Malcom Marshall, legendary West Indian fast bowler, died at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital after battling colon cancer for over six months. |
| 1/14/1990 | India and Maldives scrap visas. |
| 3/22/1885 | Gulam Yazdani, great archaeologist and critic, was born. |
| 5/11/1995 | In central Kashmir, militants burnt the Charar-e-Sherif shrine (the tomb of Sufi saint Sheikh Noorudin Noorani) built in 1460 by Zain-ul- Abidin. |
| 4/7/1929 | England's Imperial Airways had extended its flight to London-Karachi instead of London-Kahira. It was the first commercial air service in undivided India. |
| 10/12/1995 | Inderjit Gupta re-elected General Secretary of CPI. |
| 11/20/1888 | Gurunath Bewoor, director general, was born at Bewoor village, district Bijapur. |
| 2/19/1911 | Merle Oberon, film actress (Assignment Foreign Legion), was born in Calcutta, India. |
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