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Historical Event on 12/1/1951

Abanindra Nath Tagore, famous Indian painter and sculptor, died in Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/12/1979Heavy rains resulted in bursting of a dam thus causing floods in Moorvi and Lilapur in Gujarat, killing over 1,335 people.
11/6/1993First-ever elections to the Delhi Assembly.
1/29/1939Ramkrishna Mission Sanskritik Sansthan (Institute of Culture) was established.
7/27/1947Princes were appealed to regard people's paramountcy as a privilege.
9/8/1993Mandal Commission recommendation of 27\% job reservation for the backward classes brought into effect; 'Creamy' layer excluded.
7/10/1909Gandhiji arrives in London with the assistance of Lord Ampthill and works ceaselessly to educate influential British leaders and the public, and also to move Imperial authorities.
5/26/1931One hundred miners were trapped beneath a blazing mine. It was thought that there were unlikely to be any survivors in Madras.
7/14/1923Iqbal Singh Bhatia, great educationist, was born at Kotla Qasim Khan, (Pakistan).
9/9/1949Hindi was accepted as the national language of India.
8/9/1995India celebrated 53rd anniversary of Quit India movement.