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Historical Event on 12/6/1857
Raja Nahar Singh arrested by the Showers to kept him first in Motia Mahal and then at Metcalfe House, Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/25/1999 | Dr. R. Chidambaram, nuclear scientist, among the 14 distinguished personalities chosen for Padma Vibhushan. Sachin Tendulkar and Ruskin Bond get Padma Shri. |
| 9/3/1997 | India and E.U. sign an agreement envisaging a $200 m. E.U. aid for the country's primary health care programme. |
| 8/15/1997 | K. R. Narayanan, President, posthumously confers nation's highest peace-time gallantry award 'Ashok Chakra' to second Lieutenant Puneet Dutta. |
| 11/27/1907 | Harivanshrai Bachchan, famous Hindi writer and poet, was born at Allahabad. |
| 11/24/1930 | Chandrakant Trimbak Patankar, cricketer ( wicket keeper in one Test India vs NZ 1955-56), was born in Pen, Maharashtra. |
| 9/30/1996 | Centre gives its consent to Tamil Nadu government's decision to rename Madras as Chennai. |
| 5/18/1973 | A powerful underground explosion rocked India's desert of Rajasthan today, making India the sixth nation in history to set off a nuclear device. The blast, which took place at a depth of 330 feet, was in the range of 10-15 kilotons, smaller than the bomb exploded by the US at Nagasaki in World War II. India is signatory to the 1963 test ban treaty, and thus was prohibited from exploding the device on land or in the air. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi claimed the purpose of the test was peaceful and said 'such explosions may have their use in mining operations'. |
| 11/15/1997 | INS Delhi' commissioned. |
| 8/6/1951 | Rukmini Lakshmipathi, great social reformer and leader, died. |
| 1/7/1858 | The hearing of the case began that was filed against the last Mughal Emperor Bahadhur Shah II for taking part in the first armed revolution against the British. |
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