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Historical Event on 12/10/1886
Ardeshir M. Irani, producer, director, exhibitor and founder of Star Films Ltd. Bombay, was born at Poona. His first film was 'Veer Abhimanyu'.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/20/1976 | Production of Crude Oil started from offshore Bombay High near Mumbai. |
| 4/1/1989 | Bengal regains Santosh Trophy by beating Kerala. |
| 1/30/1908 | Gandhiji was summoned to see General Smuts at Pretoria and released on reaching a compromise. |
| 12/19/1860 | Lord Dalhousie, Governor General of India (1848-1856), died. |
| 5/26/1906 | Benjamin Peary Pal, internationally famous scientist of Indian agriculture, was born at Mukundpur, Punjab. In 1929, he went to Cambridge to do research on wheat and he returned to Burma with a Ph.D. five years later. In 1933, he got a research job with what is now known as the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi. In 1965, Pal became Director General of the newly founded Indian Council of Agricultural Research in New Delhi. He has written several books on roses, the most popular being ""The Rose in India"". |
| 5/13/1998 | India carries out two more nuclear tests at Pokharan in Rajasthan. |
| 11/17/1835 | James Todd, researcher and writer of Rajput history, passed away. |
| 10/1/1997 | Gul Mohammed (36), world's shortest man, died in New Delhi. Standing 56.16 cm tall, Mohammed entered the Guinness Book of World Records in 1992. |
| 1/19/1997 | Air India triumphs in the National Women's Cricket championship in Calcutta. |
| 3/22/1709 | It is assumed that Goswami Tulsidas started writing his great epic 'Ramcharitmanas' in Samvat 1631. |
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