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Historical Event on 12/12/1925
Dattatreya Gajanan Phadkar alias ""Dattu"" Phadkar, cricketer (pace bowler all-rounder for India), Kolhapur, Maharastra, was born.
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| 6/11/1931 | Purushottam Vishnu Behre, great editor, story and novel writer, was born. |
| 12/10/1932 | The Indian Military Academy (IMA) was formally inaugurated by Field Marshal Sir Philip W Chetwode, Bt, GOB, KCMG, GCSI, DSO and was christened as ""The Pioneers"". The crowning event was delivered in the hall, now named after him, and in the address to the trainees, he enunciated three principles: 'the safety, honour, and welfare of your country comes first, always and everytime', which were to guide the future officers of the Indian Army . A passage from this address has come to acquire immortality and has been adopted as the credo of the Acad |
| 10/1/1991 | India takes over the presidency of Security Council with Ambassador G.R. Gharekhan in the chair. |
| 6/5/1975 | Ramsing, great freedom fighter and editor of `Navyug Patrika', passed away. |
| 4/27/1606 | Jahangir arrested Khusroo. |
| 6/19/1871 | Madhavrao Sapre was born. |
| 7/5/1882 | Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927), classical singer and Muslim mystic, was born. He was instrumental in bringing Sufism to the music. |
| 12/20/1967 | Indira Gandhi gets powers to outlaw groups that question sovereignty. |
| 11/17/1991 | Narasimha Rao, PM, wins by-election in Nandyal with a record margin of 5,80,297 votes. |
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