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Historical Event on 10/12/1860

Sir Henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces, passed away at the age of 73.

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6/25/1880Syed Muhammad Zamin Ali, great educationist, poet, editor, professor, writer and founder-member of the Hindustani Academy, was born at Mustafabad village in the Rae Bareli district of U.P.
2/17/1907Henry Olcott, co-founder (Theosophical Society-Madras), passed away.
3/20/1782Colonel James Tod, author and researcher of Rajput history, was born.
9/13/1997India drubs Maldives in SAFF football final in Kathmandu.
12/7/2000A five-member ULFA group guns down 26 non-Assamese people, mostly Hindi and Bengali-speaking, at Sonpura near Arunachal Pradesh Border in Upper Assam.
6/3/1890Khan Abdul Gafar Khan, follower of Mahatma Gandhi, was born.