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Historical Event on 1/12/1863

Swami Vivekananda (Narendra Vishwanath Dutta)(1863-1902), dynamic renaissance missionary to West, catalyst of Hindu revival in India and social reformer, was born at Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/29/1952India enters into a war with Japan.
4/6/2000The Government permits use of LPG as auto fuel.
1/1/1985Doordarshan starts Malayalam telecast from Trivandrum.
6/15/1982Supreme Court rules that all children, regardless of citizenship, are entitled to public education.
4/2/1942Andaman Islands, U.S. Army Air Force Flying Fortresses, bomb the Japanese fleet.
5/3/1962Hundreds of Muslims are killed in clashes with Hindus in West Bengal.
10/11/1999Atal Behari Vajpayee is appointed Prime Minister. Two-tier ministry likely.
9/5/1997Mother Teresa, founder of Missionaries of Charity who was awarded with Nobel Prize (1979) and Bharat Ratna, died at the age of 87 due to heart attack late in the evening around 9:30 pm in Calcutta.
1/26/2001Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Lata Mangeshkar.
1/9/1998Three RJD ministers in the Gujral Cabinet - Mr. Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, Capt. Jai Narayan Nishad and Mrs. Kanti Singh - resign.
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