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Historical Event on 10/12/1961

Sureshchandra Banerjee, great politician, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/12/1961Saint Eknath, bhagwatbhakt, passed away.
5/1/1999India retained the SAFF Coca-Cola football title in Margao, beating Bangladesh in the final.
12/15/1976Daily newspaper ""Lokmat"" published it's first Jalgaon edit
11/1/1954French handed over their territories of Pondicherry, Mahe, Karikal and Yanon to the Government of India.
6/14/1998S. Vijayalakshmi wins National women's `A' chess title in Mumbai.
4/5/1993K. Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy, Andhra Pradesh's CM, defeats TDP's Renuka Chowdhary by 31,611 votes in the Panyam Assembly election.
1/22/1992Government raises Suzuki share in Maruti to 50 per cent making it the first public sector company to go private.
11/3/1908Shreyansprasad Jain, famous industrialist, was born.
12/11/1991The centre notifies the interim order of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal directing Karnataka to release 205 tmc ft of water to Tamil Nadu.
3/12/1930Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad to break salt law. This march stretched of 375 km. was covered in 26 days with 78 followers. The whole of India joined the campaign to boycott foreign goods and refused to pay taxes. Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan or Frontier Gandhi started Khudai Kidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier. The Government went back to its brutal force and about 90,000 people were imprisoned within a year. In Peshawar, the Gharwal regiment refused to shoot a demonstrator. In Nagaland Rani Gaidilita, a 13 year old girl raised the flag against the Britishers and was put into life imprisonment in 1932. Nehru hearing this uttered A day will come when India will remember her and Cherish her. She was released after Independence.