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Historical Event on 5/12/1915

Rash Behari Bose, revolutionary leader, left India by boarding a Japanese steamer ''Sanuki Maru'' under assumed name of P. N. Tagore to dodge the British forces.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/5/1901B. N. Sircar, producer and founder of International Film Craft and New Theaters Ltd., Calcutta was born at Bhagalpur. His films are Boker Bojha, Chorekanta, Chasar Meye (1931).
9/25/1927Jagmohan Amirchand was born in Hafizabad (now in Pakistan).
11/25/1995Namibian PM Hoge S. Geingob arrives in New Delhi.
11/25/1995Saint Kabir was born.
6/23/1992Tin Bigha Day protest in India of corridor opening to Bangladesh.
9/26/1820Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (Banerji), great Indian educationist, social reformer, litterateur, father of Bengali prose and who gave the Bengalees their first Primer in 1855, was born in the village of Birsingha in Midnapore district of Bengal.
1/10/199627th International Film Festival of India begins in New Delhi.
4/4/1998G. Sarala Devi, 62, CPI leader and general secretary of the National Federation of Indian Women, passed away in Hyderabad.
2/20/2000India-born Mr. Ujjal Dosanjh (52), leader of New Democratic Party, sworn in Canada's first Indo-Canadian Premier of British Columbia.
11/24/1919Gandhiji presides over All-India Khilafat conference at Delhi.