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Historical Event on 12/11/1963

Kewalam Madhav Panikkar, veteran politician and famous historian, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/2/1999The Indian Army launches a three pronged attack on Kargil. India is firm on Pakistan pullout from the area.
8/14/1942Usha Mehta, freedom fighter, started broadcasting from a secret transmitter on the wave length of 42.84 meters. This channel was used for freedom movement telecasts.
3/17/1997A Delhi court sentences former Union Minister Kalpnath Rai to 10 years RI.
10/12/1961Sureshchandra Banerjee, great politician, died.
7/21/1911Umashankar Jethalal Joshi, famous Gujarati poet, Hindi writer and educationist, was born at Bamna in Gujarat.
3/24/1981Bombay beat Delhi by an innings and 46 runs to win the Ranji Trophy.
6/4/1903Gandhiji established the weekly journal ""Indian Opinion"" organised at Phoenix farm near Durban.
8/26/1927Second Radio Centre was started in Calcutta.
8/26/1927Queen Elizabeth I granted its Royal Charter to the 218 Knights and merchants of the City of London who formed the East India Company. The venture failed to achieve its stated objectives -- it made little impression on the Dutch control of the spice trade and could not establish a lasting outpost in the East Indies.
11/16/1995The Pension scheme ordinance for 18 million Provident Fund subscribers takes effect with an initial corpus of Rs. 85.00 billion.