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12 January
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Swami Vivekananda was born.
Vivekananda and the Vedanta That Crossed Oceans
Swami Vivekananda carried the message of Vedanta to the world not because he was sent by a king or a government but because he believed, with every cell…
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Gopinath Saha shoots a man he erroneously thinks is the police commissioner of Calcutta (Charles…
Gopinath Saha shoots a man he erroneously thinks is the police commissioner of Calcutta (Charles Augustus Tegart); he is arrested soon after.
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Mahatma Gandhi begins his fast-unto-death in Delhi, to stop the communal violence during the…
Mahatma Gandhi begins his fast-unto-death in Delhi, to stop the communal violence during the Partition of India.
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Amrish Puri
Indian actor.
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