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Historical Event on 12/7/1856

First Hindu widow married officially.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/12/1997Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan agree to set up joint working groups on a range of issues to be identified by Foreign Secretaries.
5/12/1997Babur won the first Panipat battle and entered in North India's capital Agra.
8/29/1991Second operational Indian Remote Sensing satellite (IRS-1B) launched by a Russian launch vehicle, Vostok. It is still in service.
8/13/1995Kashmiri separatists behead a kidnapped Norwegian tourist and threatened to kill other hostages unless India freed 15 militants at Srinagar.
2/16/1896Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', great Hindi poet, litterateur, writer, social worker and editor, was born.
1/20/1949Junagarh formally merged with Saurashtra.
6/4/1955Ministry of Iron & Steel inaugurated.
5/3/1945Hurricane-equipped squadrons played a major role in the Arakan offensive which began in December 1944, disrupting the enemy's lines of communication and constantly harrying the Japanese forces until victory was achieved with the re-occupation of Rangoon.
6/18/1993The 14th national council of the BJP at Bangalore swears by Hindutva.
1/22/1973Swami Ramanand Tirth, politician and educationalist, passed away.