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Historical Event on 12/11/1926
Kamala Kant Pandey was born at Varanasi. He was the first Indian agriculture graduate to win the London Exhibition Scholarship. He was elected fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1966. In 1975, he made the discovery of a ""revolutionary technique in plant breeding
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| 3/12/1942 | British troops vacate the Andaman in Gulf of Bengal. |
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| 7/29/1748 | Boscawen landed 25 km south of Pondicherry. |
| 9/25/1857 | Lucknow relief by Havelock & Outram begins. |
| 8/3/1954 | Atomic Energy Department established. |
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| 9/29/1997 | IRS-1D, fourth Indian Remote Sensing satellite, successfully launched off by PSLV-CI, the country's first operational polar satellite launch vehicle, from Sriharikota. With this launch, India became a member of the exclusive club of nations capable of launching the heavier class of satellites. |
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