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Historical Event on 9/12/1995
Heavy rainfall in the Himalaya region, resulting in landslide, claimed 70 lives near Kullu.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/1/1672 | The East India Company and the English law was for the first time intorduced in India. It was set up as directed by the Court of Judicature. |
| 4/13/1982 | Pandit Parmanand, founder member of `Gather Party', passed away. |
| 3/14/1931 | First Indian talkie film 'Alam Ara' released at Majestic Cinema, Bombay. Directed by Ardeshir Irani, the film was 11,152 ft. long and was produced by Imperial Film Co., Bombay and beared censored No. 10043 on March 11. The most remarkable thing about this film was birth of sound in Indian films, it came with a bang and quickly displaced the silent movies and brought revolutionary changes in the whole set up of the industry. |
| 8/14/1996 | Amrit Rai, son of Munshi Premchand, died. |
| 2/14/1994 | The controversial Supreme Court Judge V.Ramaswami, who survived an impeachment motion in Parliament, retires. |
| 10/13/1987 | Kishore Kumar Ganguly, well known singer, died in Bombay. |
| 3/17/1988 | First operational Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1A) launched by a Russian Vostok. IRS system under National Natural Resources Management System (NNRMS) coordinated at national level by the Planning Committee of NNRMS (PC-NNRMS) and the data from IRS satellites is processed by the National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad. SI, a US Company, also receives and markets IRS data worldwide under a commercial contract with Antrix Corporation of the Department of Space. |
| 8/14/1968 | Pravin Kalyan Amre, cricketer (Indian batsman, century on Test debut 1992), was born in Bombay. |
| 4/13/1890 | Ramchandra Gopal Torne (Dadasaheb), film director, was born. |
| 2/22/1978 | Judge Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 11/07/1985. |
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