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Historical Event on 12/5/1959
K. S. Duleepsinhji, cricketer (12 Tests for England, 995 runs), passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/29/1967 | First blowdown of the 4 ft trisonic tunnel; the tunnel with all auxiliary facilities such as compressor system, electrical sub-station, design office and model fabrication shop is formally set up and commissioned by National Aeronautical Laboratory. |
| 9/25/1947 | Kashmir accedes to Indian Union. |
| 2/9/1992 | Publication of daily newspaper `Lokpatra' started from Nanded. |
| 1/17/1905 | Dattaraya Ramchandra Kaprekar was born at Dahanu near Bombay. He discovered the shortest possible routes to solve mathematical problems. In 1927, he won the wrangler R. P. Paranjpe Mathematical Prize for an Original Piece of work in mathematics. He discovered 'Kaprekar Constant' in 1946. It is the number ""6174"". The constant 6174 is arrived at and this number then generates itself into one set of numbers called ""self numbers"" that is also known by his name. Kaprekar passed away in 1988. |
| 3/29/1952 | India enters into a war with Japan. |
| 3/5/1961 | Sachin Sengupta, famous writer, dramatist and journalist, passed away. |
| 5/27/1995 | National Centre for Labour launched in Bangalore to give a boost to the unorganised worker's movement in India. |
| 6/23/1810 | Duncan Dock of Bombay was completed. |
| 12/31/1998 | Air Chief Marshal Satish Kumar Sareen PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC, retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. |
| 12/23/1964 | India & Ceylon hit by cyclone, about 4,850 killed. |
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