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Historical Event on 2/12/1985

Fire aboard M.V. Chidambaram, an Indian liner sailing from Singapore to Madras, killed 34 people.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/19/1955Roger Michael Humphery Binny, Indian medium-pace all-rounder early eighties, was born at Bangalore.
4/3/1987S.H. Vatsyayan passed away.
10/27/1999Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in Madhya Pradesh splits.
6/7/2000Telecom Commission approves the free phone bonanza for all telecom employees announced by the Union Communications Minister Ram Vilas Paswan.
5/31/1987Daman and Diu to remain as union territories after Goa becomes the 25th state of India.
2/13/1856East India Company captured Lucknow along with Avadh Kingdom.
1/12/2000Dr. Gurudev S. Khush of the Manila-based International Rice Research Institute wins the Wolf prize for Agriculture for the year 2000.
5/10/1999Tamil Nadu Government withdraws the controversial Prevention of Terrorist Activities (POTA) Bill.
3/3/1839Jamshedji Nasarvanji Tata, famous industrialist and father of modern technology, was born at Navsari near Surat, Gujarat. He started cotton mills in Bombay and Nagpur and founded the Tata Iron and Steel Company, which is one of the largest integrated steel mills in the world.
4/14/1988Ashok Kumar, actor, recieved the Dada Saheb Phalke Award.