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Historical Event on 1/12/1948

Gandhiji decides to fast for communal peace in Delhi for communal riots which broke between Hindus and Muslims at Calcutta. Mountbatten fails to dissuade Gandhiji.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/5/1915Balasaheb Devras, sar sanghchalak of RSS, was born.
12/14/1968Chaggan Baba (Chagganlal Karamshi Parekh), great social worker and founder of Mahila Griha Udyog and Lijjat Papad, died.
8/14/1947Pakistan was partitioned from India. Gandhiji hailed the following day as one of rejoicing for deliverance from British bondage.
8/27/1994Indian soldiers and Muslim militants clash in Kashmir.
10/1/1958Metric System of weights was introduced in India.
4/10/1999Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (87), patriarch of Malayalam fiction, died at his ancestral village at Sankaramangalam in Thakazhi village.
4/5/1990Lok Sabha passes the Punjab Bill.
5/17/1949India decided with only one dissent vote to remain within the Commonwealth of Nations.
1/5/1952U.S. signs five-year accord to give India $ 50 mil. for economic development in New Delhi.
12/4/1919Inderkumar Gujral, former Prime Minister of India, was born at Jhelum (Pakistan).