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Historical Event on 12/6/1998
13th Asian Games inaugurated at Bangkok.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/12/1708 | Shahu was crowned as the Maratha ruler. Shahu, son of Sambhaji, entered Satara and released Aurangzeb's son Azam the previous year. |
| 9/30/1997 | Gen. V. P. Malik takes over from Gen. Shankar Roychowdhury as Chief of Army Staff. |
| 2/23/1969 | Madhubala, famous Hindi film actress, passed away. |
| 2/23/1969 | Saint Gora Kumbhar, an intense devotee of the deity Vitthal at Pandharpur, took Samadhi in Ter village in Osmanabad Zilla, near Latur. |
| 9/15/1967 | Ramkrishnarao Burgula, Chief Minister of Hyderabad, died. |
| 7/18/1993 | Rail, road traffic disrupted. |
| 8/7/1925 | Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986. |
| 9/14/1932 | Durgavati Devi aka Durga Bhabhi, an revolutionary and freedom fighter, was born. |
| 3/1/1994 | Manmohan Desai, famous Hindi film maker, passed away. He was 57. |
| 6/19/1901 | Raj Chandra Bose, Indian mathematician and statistician, was born at Hosangabad in Madhya Pradesh. He made many valuable contributions to the subject. He discovered new codes for telecommunication. In 1976, America's highest honour to a scientist came to Bose as he was elected Fellow of the US Academy of Sciences. |
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