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Historical Event on 2/12/1882

Satyendranath Dutt, famous Bengali poet, was born.

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2/14/1989Supreme Court orders Union Carbide Coporation of USA and Union Carbide India Limited to pay $470 millions (about Rs. 710 crores) in full and final settlement of all claims out of the Bhopal gas Disaster Litigation tragedy of 1985.
11/7/1936Chandrakant Devtale, famous Hindi poet, was born.
4/1/1839Medical College Hospital in Calcutta having only 20 beds was opened for male patients .
12/1/1997At least 61 persons, including 22 women and 17 children, belonging to SC and extremely backward communities are gunned down by banned private army of feudal landlords, Ranbir Sena, at Bathe-Lakshmanpur village in Bihar's Jehanabad district.
12/17/1938Charuchandra Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali story writer and novelist, died.
11/12/1946Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya died at the age of 85.
11/12/1946Qutubu'd-din Aibak (1206-1210) was crowned at Lahore after the death of Muhammad of Ghuri. He was originally a slave of Turkestan. As he started his career as a slave, the dynasty founded by him in India is known as ""Slave Dynasty"". The construction of Qutabminar was started during his regime. Since he was very generous, the people called him ""Lakh Baksh"".
1/1/1920P.M. Nadagouda, politician, was born at Mysore, Chitwadgi.