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Historical Event on 3/12/1988

After 58 years in the commemoration of Dandi March, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi performed the 32 kms Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/20/1857British troops conquered Delhi from the Mutineers.
11/8/2000India wins the men's team title in the World Carrom championship in New Delhi.
3/4/1994Lech Walesa, Polish President, visit India.
3/13/1996Wills World Cup Cricket semi final (India vs Sri Lanka) at Calcutta abandoned due to unruly crowd behaviour. Sri Lanka enters final.
4/15/1975India recognises the Sihanouk Government in Cambodia.
2/23/1962The Cholera Research Centre was established at Calcutta (renamed as the National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases in 1979).
11/8/1991K.P.S. Gill reappointed DGP in Punjab.
3/13/1997H. D. Deve Gowda, Prime Minister, presented the G. K. Reddy Memorial Award to Shekhar Gupta, Chief Editor of The Indian Express.
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.
1/17/1905Sher Shah defeated Humayun for the second time at Hardoi in U.P. in the battle of Kanauj.