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Historical Event on 2/12/1985

Fire aboard M.V. Chidambaram, an Indian liner sailing from Singapore to Madras, killed 34 people.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/2/1913Bhavaniprasad Mishra was born.
10/23/1883Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia, a pioneer in Indian Geology, was born at Surat in Gujarat.
1/15/1965Food Corporation of India inaugurated in Madras.
6/7/1984Indian Army troops, sent to Punjab to quell Sikh violence, stormed the Golden Temple in Amritsar, the holiest of Sikh shrines. More than 400 persons were reported killed in the assault at the shrine, including Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale.
3/9/1931Karansingh, politician, was born.
2/27/1996Manmohan Singh presents the vote-on-account as part of the interim budget in Lok Sabha for 1996-97 with a Rs. 5000 crore deficit.
12/11/19676.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed.
7/27/1947Princes were appealed to regard people's paramountcy as a privilege.
12/9/1989Shyama Charan Shukla sworn in as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
4/13/1993Lalitadevi Shastri passed away.