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Historical Event on 12/11/1926
Kamala Kant Pandey was born at Varanasi. He was the first Indian agriculture graduate to win the London Exhibition Scholarship. He was elected fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1966. In 1975, he made the discovery of a ""revolutionary technique in plant breeding
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11/30/1986 | Sikhs hijack bus, killing 24 at Punjab. |
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