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12 February

🇮🇳 In India
1824 Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati, philosopher, social leader and founder of the Arya Samaj, was born. He was the first to give the call for Swaraj as "India for Indians" in 1876, a call later taken up by Lokmanya Tilak.
1957 Tatyarao Lahane, Indian eye surgeon and ophthalmologist, was born. He served as the Dean of Grant Medical College and J J Hospital, Mumbai, and set a world record with more than 162,000 cataract surgeries. He was awarded Padma Shri award in 2008.
1975 India declared itself as a smallpox-free nation.
🌎 Elsewhere
1502 Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.
1804 German philosopher Immanuel Kant died in Konigsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia).
1809 Abraham Lincoln, American lawyer and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865, was born in Kentucky.
1809 British naturalist Charles Darwin, who developed the theory of evolution by natural selection, was born.
1818 Chile gained independence from Spain.
1912 Pu Yi, the last emperor of the Manchu (Ch'ing) dynasty in China, renounced his throne following the establishment of a republic under Sun Yat-sen.
1915 Adolf Hitler receives the relatively common Iron Cross second class for bravery in World War.
1949 People were panic stricken in Quito, Ecuador, after a dramatized version of H G Wells' War of the Worlds was played on radio.
1994 One of the world's best-known paintings, The Scream by Edvard Munch, is stolen from a museum in Norway.
1999 A group of international scientists reinforces warnings that genetically modified food may be damaging to health.
2000 Charles Schulz, American cartoonist and creator of the comic strip Peanuts, died. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential cartoonists of all time.
2002 Yugoslavian ex-president Slobodan Milosevic went on trial for war crimes during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war.
2019 NASA data shows the world has got greener - 5% more leafier since early 2000s, mostly due to tree planting in China, intensive farming in India.


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