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Historical Event on 3/12/1938
Vijay Laxman Mehra, cricketer (Indian Test batsman from age 17), was born in Amritsar.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/22/1991 | Shripad Amrit Dange, veteran communist leader, passed away. |
| 5/22/1991 | Saint Gora Kumbhar, an intense devotee of the deity Vitthal at Pandharpur, took Samadhi in Ter village in Osmanabad Zilla, near Latur. |
| 12/3/1882 | Nandalal Bose, great Indian painter and master, was born in Bengal. |
| 1/11/1966 | Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian Prime Minister (1964-66), passed away at Tashkent, U.S.S.R. at 1:32, age 61. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously. |
| 7/23/1898 | Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, well known Bangla novelist, was born. |
| 8/8/1972 | Olympics open at Munich (26). |
| 1/1/1932 | Publication of Marathi Newspaper 'Sakal' started. |
| 8/3/1886 | Maithili Sharan Gupta, first man of modern Hindi poetry and literature, writer, patriot and social worker, was born at Chirgaon village near Jhansi. |
| 5/17/1996 | Four members (Sange Sherpa, Hira Ram, Tashi Ram, Nadre Sherpa) of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police expedition climb Mount Everest from the Chinese side. |
| 6/25/1932 | India played their first official test match on the ground of Lords against England. |
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