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Historical Event on 1/12/1993
Ramakanth Rath, well-known Oriya poet, gets the Saraswathi Samman of Rs.3 lakh.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/4/1832 | Darpan', a fortnightly magazine started publishing as a weekly. |
| 5/13/1918 | Balasarswati, famous dancer of Bharat Natyam, was born. |
| 7/5/1997 | Janata Dal splits. Laloo Prasad Yadav forms Rashtriya Janata Dal and Sharad Yadav was elected as the Janta Dal president. |
| 7/5/1981 | Rajan Mahadevan recites 31,811 digits of ¦(pie) from memory. |
| 6/13/1879 | Ganesh Damodar (Babarao) Savarkar, revolutionary, was born. |
| 5/10/1905 | Pankaj Malik, music director, was born. |
| 1/25/1824 | Micheal Madhusudan Dutta, Bengali poet and dramatist, was born in Sagardari village of Jessore district. |
| 6/7/1997 | Mahesh Bhupathi becomes the first Indian to win a Grand Slam title when he and Japan's Rika Hiraki claim the mixed doubles. |
| 1/14/1948 | First issue of Marathi daily newspaper 'Loksatta' was published. |
| 8/25/1998 | Resurgent India Bonds garner more than 4 billion dollars of which 30\% are from the Middle East, 20\% each from South east Asia, US and Europe. |
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