1945- Death of Ras Bihari Bose, Indian revolutionary leader, on 21 January in 1945 in Tokyo in Japan.
Born at Subaldaha village (in the present day Purba Bardhaman district of West Bengal) on 25 May 1886, Rash Behari Bose played an important role in India's Independence movement.
Rash Behari, who had joined Forest Research Institute in Dehradun, underscored the need for an armed struggle for liberating India from British rule. He was involved in the Delhi Conspiracy case, also known as the Delhi-Lahore Conspiracy. The case refers to an alleged plot to kill the then Viceroy of India, Lord Hardinge, in 1912. After the failed assassination attempt, Bose fled to Imperial Japan in 1915.
Rash Behari formed the Indian National Army (INA) the reins of which was later on handed over to Subhas Chandra Bose by him.
His wife Toshiko, whom he married in Japan, died from pneumonia in 1925. Rash Behari died on the January 21, 1945, aged 58.
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