12th March – What Happened Today In History? | On This Day

Today In History? 

Find out what happened on 12th March in History. There are a lot many happenings which had taken place on this date in the pages of Indian History, here we have listed some of the very important events occurred 12th March

Shreya Ghoshal (born March 12, 1984) is an Indian singer. Best known as a playback singer in Hindi films, she also sings in other Indian languages including Bengali, Malayalam, Assamese, Kannada, Marathi, Oriya, Gujarati, Tamil and Telugu.

Anish Kapoor, CBE, RA, Padma Bhushan (born 12 March 1954) is an Indian-born British sculptor. Born in Mumbai, Kapoor has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s when he moved to study art, first at the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art and Design.

Yashwantrao Balwantrao Chavan (12 March 1911 – 25 November 1984) was the first Chief Minister of Maharashtra after the division of Bombay State and the fifth Deputy Prime Minister of India.

Purva Bedi (born 1974) is an Indian American actress. Although she was born in Chandigarh, she was brought up in Belgium and the United States. She attended the prestigious Bronx High School of Science and graduated in 1992.

Jitendra Joshi was the first mayor of Ahmedabad. Jitendra Joshi was born on March 12, 1866 at Bhavnagar, Gujarat. The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation was founded by Britishers in 1902.

Death anniversaries on 12th March

Habib Jalib was a Pakistani revolutionary poet. A left-wing activist and politician, he was a staunch democrat who opposed martial law, authoritarianism and state oppression.

Samaresh Basu (11 December 1924 – 12 March 1988) was an Indian Bengali writer based in Kolkata, India. He was born on December 11, 1924 (1331 in the Bengali calendar) and spent his early childhood in Dhaka, Bikrampur in what is today Bangladesh.

Hasan Gafoor (1949 or 1950 – 12 March 2012) was the Director General of Police of Maharashtra (Anti Corruption bureau). Previously he was the Director General of Police of Maharashtra and managing director of the Maharashtra Police Housing & Welfare Corporation.

HameedUddin Husami Husammi (July 23, 1928 – March 12, 2010) was an Indian Muslim religious scholar followed particularly in South Asia and also among the South Asian diaspora in the Middle East, Western Europe, and North America.

Kumar Shri Indrajitsinhji Madhavsinhji ( pronunciation (help·info)) (15 June 1937 – 12 March 2011) was an Indian cricketer who played in four Tests from 1964 to 1969 as a wicketkeeper-batsman. Indrajitsinhji was born in Jamnagar, Gujarat.

Notable Events:

1941 Chinese engineers leave to survey a route for the proposed 1,000-mile-long highway from Ningyuan, China to Assam, India.

1942 British troops vacate the Andaman in Gulf of Bengal.

1954 Indian National Academy of Letters “Sahitya Academy” inaugurated by Dr. Radhakrishnan.

1967 Indira Gandhi became Prime Minister of India for the second time after winning the General Elections.

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