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Historical Event on 4/12/1801

Ranjit Singh proclaimed himself Maharaja of Punjab.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/26/1801Supreme Courts had Bengal and Madras by the charter.
4/12/1997Maharashtra assembly adopts bill banning interviews for admitting students to pre-primary schools.
9/3/1916Annie Besant started 'Home Rule' movement.
1/17/1905Dattaraya Ramchandra Kaprekar was born at Dahanu near Bombay. He discovered the shortest possible routes to solve mathematical problems. In 1927, he won the wrangler R. P. Paranjpe Mathematical Prize for an Original Piece of work in mathematics. He discovered 'Kaprekar Constant' in 1946. It is the number ""6174"". The constant 6174 is arrived at and this number then generates itself into one set of numbers called ""self numbers"" that is also known by his name. Kaprekar passed away in 1988.
5/25/1997Seven Pakistani infiltrators are killed in an encounter with BSF in Ranbir Singh Pora.
4/3/1987S.H. Vatsyayan passed away.
1/30/1947Gandhiji leaves Patna for Delhi. Mountbatten, new Viceroy, arrives in Delhi.
2/21/1983More than 600 people were killed in the Indian state of Assam after student agitators protesting the immigration of Muslim refugees from Bangladesh attempted to stop state elections.
4/28/1992Vinayak Krishna Gokak, famous Kannad poet and Gyanpeeth Awardee, passed away.
5/2/1985Banarsidas Chaturvedi, famous writer and journalist, passed away.