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Historical Event on 1/12/1995

Kerala's birthrate drops to 17.5 per 1000.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/19/1903Gangadhar Devram Khanolkar, biographer and critic, was born.
12/14/1969Bishen Bedi takes 7-98 (career-best) v Australia at Calcutta.
7/3/1997Tamil actor Sivaji Ganesan gets 1996 Dada Saheb Phalke award for outstanding contribution to Indian cinema.
4/5/1919India's first modern shipping company Scindia Steam Navigation's first ship 'Liberty' started its journey. The weight of the ship was 5,940 tonnes.
12/30/1974Opening of the fifth Indian Film Festival. It was presided over by Satyajit Ray at New Delhi.
6/8/1915P.C.Kuttikrishnan 'Urub', Malyalam story writer and novelist, was born.
4/10/1997Announcement of UP's 70th new district to be re-named after Jyotiba Phule.
4/10/1997Bahlul Khan Lodi, an Afghan and founder of Lodi dynasty, died in Delhi.
7/25/2000Two Indians Aruna Roy from Rajasthan and Jockin Arputham, founder of the Indian National Slum Dwellers' Association, chosen for the Ramon Magsaysay award for public service.
1/1/1918Sir Edwin Lutyens was knighted in recognition of his quality of work at Delhi and his gratuitious services to the War Graves Commission.