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Historical Event on 12/11/1994

H.D. Deve Gowda, Janata Dal leader, assumes office as CM of Karnataka.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/6/1995Prabhakar Barve,painter of international fame, passed away.
9/13/1996Lok Pal Bill introduced in Lok Sabha.
6/29/1909Pandit Motilal, social reformer and freedom fighter, was born.
5/18/1974First underground Atomic device explosion for India was carried out successfully near Pokhran in Rajasthan (Thar Desert) at 8:05 a.m. This event made India as the 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb.
10/28/1996Goa upset Karnataka to win their first Ranji Cricket Trophy game ever.
12/10/1907Rudyard Kipling, author of `The Jungle Book' and `Kim', received the Nobel prize for literature.
10/1/2000Ram Vilas Paswan, Communications Minister, launched the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited having total functional autonomy.
2/16/1905Padmabhushan Aliyawar Jang, former Governor of Maharashtra, was born.
8/17/1761William Carey, the first English missionary to India, was born. He taught at the newly founded Fort William College at Calcutta from 1801 till his death and helped found the Serampore Press, which made the Bible accessible to over 300 million people.
6/2/1991Dinesh Goswami, former Law Minister, passed away in a road accident in Assam.