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Historical Event on 12/4/1829
Britain abolished ""sati"" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre)
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| 4/20/1971 | Air India started Boing 707 Jumbo Jet flight between Bombay and London. |
| 6/20/1997 | Basu Bhattacharya (65), film-maker, died in Mumbai. |
| 6/23/1958 | Tamil leaders in Madras call on Nehru to lobby for better treatment of Ceylon's Tamil minority. |
| 1/22/1989 | DMK swept to power in Tamil Nadu Assembly election. |
| 1/1/1891 | Sampurnanand, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, was born. |
| 12/5/1950 | Sri Aurobindo Ghosh, great revolutionary, freedom fighter and teacher, passed away. |
| 3/23/1994 | Last day of Test cricket for Kapil Dev. |
| 9/23/1906 | Kumar (Mijjan) alias Syed Hasan Ali, film actor, was born in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. He has worked in 'Shadows of the Dead', 'Dukhiari', 'Gambler', 'Patan ni Paniari', 'Thoure of Delhi'. |
| 10/4/1992 | D. M. Sutar, freedom fighter and senior journalist, died. |
| 7/28/1997 | Calling and holding of bandhs by political parties and other associations or organisations declared 'Illegal and unconstitutional' by a Full Bench of the Kerala High Court. |
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