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Historical Event on 4/12/1942
Nehru pledges 'no surrender' to the Axis despite the rejection of Britain's plans at New Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/22/1887 | Srinivas Ramanujam, India's greatest mathematician, was born at Erode in Tamil Nadu. |
| 5/1/1913 | Balraj Sahani, famous film actor, was born. |
| 1/27/1989 | M. Karunanidhi sworn in as DMK CM in Tamil Nadu. |
| 5/21/1991 | Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minster (1984-91), assassinated by human bomb explosion plotted by LTTE at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu, 40 km from Madras, at 10.20 P.M. |
| 10/18/1992 | 1,000 police personnel occupy the Golden Temple in Amritsar to keep Punjab separatists away. |
| 9/10/1943 | Satyendra Chandra Bardhan, Vakkom Abdul Khader, Fouja Singh, Boniface Pereira and Anandan were hanged on charges of conspiracy to ""wage war against the King"" under the Ememy Agents Ordinance (which was given retrospective effect) at Madras Jail. They sang Vande Mataram and shouted ""Bharat Mata Ki Jai"" when they were being hanged. |
| 12/4/1998 | Christians across the country observe a protest day against the recent attacks on the community and its institutions. |
| 1/8/1984 | Sushma Mukhopadhyay, first Indian women pilot, died at the of 74. |
| 11/16/1835 | Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi was born in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. She was named Manikarnika and was called 'Manu'. (16 or19). |
| 5/18/1945 | Bhagwat Subramaniam Chandrasekhar, cricketer (brilliant Indian leggie 1964-79), was born in Banglore. He received Arjun Award and Padmashree awards in 1972. |
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