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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 |
| 6/23/1930 | The Simon Commission recommends a federal India and the separation of Burma at London. |
| 12/22/1751 | Battle of Mandavgargh. |
| 3/16/1924 | Bhupendranath Basu, great freedom fighter, President of Congress and fluent orator, passed away. |
| 1/25/1971 | Himachal Pradesh becomes a full-fledged 18th Indian Union state. |
| 10/6/1992 | Z. R. Ansari, former central minister, died. |
| 9/7/1905 | Raghunath Govind Sardesai, journalist and Marathi litterateur, was born. |
| 3/14/1995 | Keshubai Patel (Gujarat), J.B. Patnaik (Orissa) and Manohar Joshi, the 12th (Maharashtra) CMs, elected. |
| 6/1/1944 | Liladhar Jagudi, well known Hindi poet, passed away. |
| 2/18/1993 | Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"". |
| 4/22/1991 | IMF and the World Bank decide to grant $1 billion loan to India. |
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