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Historical Event on 1/12/1924
Gandhiji was operated on for appendicitis in Sassoon Hospital, Pune.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/11/1921 | Subramania Bharati, freedom fighter, Tamil poet and editor, passed away at an early age of 39. |
| 10/2/1910 | Frank C. Brown, educationist and social worker, was born. |
| 10/16/1999 | A woman is elected as the Speaker of the Sikkim Assembly. |
| 9/26/1975 | Notification to pay equal payment to both men and women workers was promulgated. |
| 8/15/1947 | On the the stroke of mid-night on 14th August 1947, India became independent and was partitioned. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru became the first prime minister and Dr. Rajendra Prasad became the first president of free India. The mixed economy policy was taken on a five-year plan basis for economic development. On 26th January 1950, India became a democratic and is the biggest democracy of the world today. In 1956, on the basis of languages, India was divided into 14 states and 6 union territories. Today, there are 27 states and 7 union territories. |
| 4/23/1795 | East India Company gave Warren Hastings a grant of the money and he was honourably acquitted of the charges. |
| 1/9/1971 | Muslim leader Sheik Mohammed Abdullah was barred from returning to Kashmir. |
| 10/3/1950 | India protests U.N. troops' crossing of 38th parallel in New York. |
| 6/20/1918 | K.K. Singh, politician and social worker, was born at Agra. |
| 1/4/1940 | Shrikant Sinkar, famous Marathi novelist, was born. |
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