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Historical Event on 12/11/1906
Mysore Gururaj Vijayasarathi, cricket Test umpire for 13 tests from 1951-60, was born in Karnataka.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/10/1984 | Top army commander killed in Bihar; Sikh troops desert unit. |
| 8/16/1994 | Government agrees to present the revised ATR on JPC report on Scam; Parliament crisis defused. |
| 12/20/1978 | Riots in many Indian cities in protest against Indira Gandhi's imprisonment. |
| 6/7/1989 | Sheetal Pandya set up a world record at the age of 5 years. |
| 5/6/1952 | Maria Montessori, pioneer in mordern education, who spent almost 10 years in India, died in Noordwijk aan Zee. The principles and techiques advocated by her are also applied to the education of handicapped children and adult education. |
| 7/16/1991 | Railway budget hikes passenger fares by 15-20\% and freight up by 10\%. |
| 10/13/1987 | Kishore Kumar Ganguly, well known singer, died in Bombay. |
| 7/25/1992 | K. Madhavan, CBI Jt. Director looking into the security scam, resigns. |
| 9/20/1856 | Narayan Guru was born in Chempazhanthi village of Kerala. Sri Narayan Guru was a social reformer, led reform movement in Kerala, rejected casteism, and promoted new values of spiritual freedom and social equality. He also stressed the need for the spiritual and social uplift of the downtrodden by their own efforts through the establishment of temples and educational institutions. In the process, he denounced the superstitions that clouded the fundamental Hindu cultural convention of caste. |
| 6/28/1986 | Accord with Mizo National Front; Lal Denga to be the chief minister of Mizoram. |
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