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Historical Event on 4/12/1801
William Carey fort was appointed the Professor of Bengali Language in fort at William College, Calcutta.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/13/1997 | The contentious women's reservation bill put on the back burner with PM Gujral saying govt. would not push through such a major social legislation until there was a consensus on it. |
| 2/2/1917 | Maharshi Vinayak Ramchandra Patwardhan (Annasaheb), collegue of Lokmanya Tilak, passed away. |
| 5/13/2000 | The Union Government gives its approval for the creation of the three new states of Jharkhand, Uttaranchal and Chhattisgarh to be carved out of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. |
| 9/11/1911 | Amarnath Lala, right-hand Indian all-rounder of 30s and 40s, was born at Lahore in Pakistan. He was awarded with Padma Bhushan in 1991. |
| 9/19/1704 | Guru Govind Singh died. |
| 10/29/1967 | Kurtkoti Lingangaunda, great Indian Philosopher, passed away. |
| 12/16/1999 | Likhiram Karve, Madhya Pradesh's Minister for Transport, is hacked to death by naxalites. |
| 2/28/1918 | Srinivas Ramanujan, famous Indian scientist, was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. |
| 7/14/1928 | Bedabrata Barua, educationist, social reformer and politician, was born. |
| 10/5/1989 | Meerasahib Fatima Beevi, former High Court judge from Kerala, was named the first woman judge of the Supreme Court. |
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