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Historical Event on 1/12/1966

Shiri Narhar Vishnu Gadgil (Kakasaheb), great freedom fighter, nationalist leader, social reformer, lawyer, prolific writer and politician, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/1/1927Justice Savyasachi Mukherjee was born.
2/24/1880Satyanarayan, great poet of Kannada language, was born.
1/20/1931Saroj Kumari', a feature film produced by Mahavir Photoplays and Theatres Ltd., Secunderabad, was prohibited on January 20 on the grounds that it was ''sordid'' and ''revolting''.
11/16/1877Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia, professor, pioneer and innovator, died. He was the first Indian who was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, London. He introduced lighting by gas and was the first to build ""INDUS"", a steam-ship in India in 1833. He also introduced sewing machine, photography and electro-plat
12/3/1991Lok Sabha question hour telecast at 7.15 a.m for the first time .
4/23/1858Pandita Ramabai, social reformer and philosopher, was born in the State of Mysore.
4/10/1999Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (87), patriarch of Malayalam fiction, died at his ancestral village at Sankaramangalam in Thakazhi village.
6/16/1946C. Rajagopalchari became the Governor of West Bengal (1947) in Interim Government.
1/15/1971Dinanath Damodar Dalal, great artist, passed away.
3/25/1998Yashwant Sinha, Finance Minister, and Railway Minister Nitish Kumar present the interim budgets for 1998- 99.