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Historical Event on 12/11/1967
6.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/14/1998 | Kushabhau Thakre is declared elected BJP president. |
| 1/17/1997 | Government rules out granting dual citizenship to NRIs. |
| 5/1/1977 | Janata Party was established. |
| 7/13/1947 | An Indian Independence Bill was moved in the British Parliament on 4th July 1947 which became an 'Act' on 13th July 1947. Two Boundary Commissions under Sir Cyril Radcliff were appointed to demarcate the boundaries of Punjab and Bengal. |
| 6/1/1996 | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, former President of India, passed away. |
| 4/4/1994 | Ravi Naik, Goa CM, resigns. |
| 5/21/1835 | Biharilal Chakravorty, Bengali poet, was born. |
| 11/29/1988 | Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support. |
| 11/29/1988 | Alauddin Khalji conquered the throne of Delhi. In July declared himself as the Sultan. |
| 9/1/1962 | Shivaji University was established in Kolhapur. |
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