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Historical Event on 7/12/1947

Pochiah Krishnamurthy, great Indian cricket wicket-keeper (1971 WI tour), was born in Hyderabad.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/1/1930A bomb, believed to be planted by Indian nationalists, is found at the British Museum at London.
3/7/1961Govind Ballabh Pant passed away. He had served eight years as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He was bestowed with Bharat Ratna in 1959.
9/29/1999Jaswant Singh, External Affairs Minister, meet his Pakistani counterpart Sartaj Aziz meet at the SAARC ministerial meeting.
4/24/1929First non-stop flight from England to India takes-off.
6/6/1997Five killed and 17 injured in a bus explosion in Gurdaspur district of Punjab.
1/1/1980This decade was announced to be observed as the ""International Decade of Water & Sanitation"".
12/24/1997Congress(I) splits in Bihar with Dr. Jagannath Mishra and Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav floating iits regional outfit, ""Bihar Jan Congress
2/4/1974Satyendra Nath Bose, a noted mathematician, professor and physicist, passed away at Calcutta. He contributed greatly to statictical mechanics, the electromagnetic properties of ionosphere, the therories of X-ray crystallography and thermoluminescence, and unified field theory. Bose instituted ""Planck's Law and the Hypothesis of Light Quana"" in 1924.
3/1/2000P.Harikrishna becomes India's youngest International Master in the Sangli International chess tournament.
7/22/1678Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj won the fort of Vellore.