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Historical Event on 2/12/1993

Kapil Dev crosses 400 wickets and 5000 runs in test cricket.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/17/1931Viceroy of India Lord Irvin accepted Mahatma Gandhi as leader of people and invited him at Vicregal Lodge (now known at Rashtrapati Bhavan). After the event, Winston Churchill, who later became Prime Minister of Britain, referred Gandhiji as ""the Half-Naked Fakir of India"".
6/7/1998India emerges World Bank's single largest borrower with cumulative loans of 44 billion dollars.
8/9/1952New Delhi reports that 20 mil. Indian peasants were imperiled by crop failures.
10/6/1999Sonia Gandhi, Congress(I) president, won the Bellary Lok Sabha seat defeating her BJP rival Sushma Swaraj by a margin of 56,100 votes.
2/18/1983Violence between Hindu Tamils and Buddhist Singhalese in Sri Lanka marks beginning of Tamil rebellion by Tiger freedom fighters demanding an independent nation called Eelam. Prolonged civil war results.
7/23/1927Daily radio transmission broadcasting in India started by Bombay Radio Station. This was the first Commercial Radio Station.
11/2/1971Hurricane and ensuing tidal wave takes 6,000 lives.
1/15/1656Chhatrapati Shivaji conquered Javali state.
5/1/1972All fuel coal mines were nationalised.
9/19/1937Vishnu Narayan Matkhande passed away.