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Historical Event on 8/12/1922
Chunilal Kalidas Madiya, famous Gujrati one-act player, play wright story writer and novelist, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/16/1923 | Narayan Athavle, famous Marathi litterateur and journalist, was born. |
| 6/17/1839 | Lord William Bentik, governor general of India, was born. |
| 10/2/1955 | Nehru inaugurated an Integral Coach factory at Perambur. |
| 2/22/1993 | Vinod Kambli scores 224 vs England at Bombay in 411 balls and smashes 23 fours. |
| 2/16/1992 | Abbas Musawi, leader of Hezbollah, assassinated. |
| 9/9/1896 | Shyam Lal Gupt 'Parshad', freedom fighter, social worker and Padamshree awardee, was born in Narwal village near Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh. |
| 12/19/1945 | Gandhiji lays foundation stone of C. F. Andrews' Memorial Hospital at Santiniketan. |
| 10/26/1932 | Indian Muslim leader demands that Gandhi be released from prison. The Viceroy responded that this was only possible if Gandhi disassociated himself from the civil disobedience campaign. |
| 10/26/1932 | Saint Narhari Sonar, a poet-saint of the Varkari smanaj and goldsmith (sonar) from Maharashtra had taken Samadhi. His transition from a staunch Shaiva to a Vithoba-worshipping Varkari, after a miracle that makes him realize that Vithoba and Shiva are one and the same. |
| 1/3/1945 | No. 8 Squadron becomes the first to convert onto the Spitfire VIII during the previous month and commencing operations on 3 January 1945 in the Kangaw area. |
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