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Historical Event on 10/12/1991
Sonia Gandhi declineed to contest from Amethi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/13/1951 | First test flight of 'Hindustan Trainer-2' (H.T.2) which was indigenously designed and manufactured in India. |
| 5/2/1953 | 40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers. |
| 7/25/1976 | Sriram Singh at Montreal sets record for 800m in 1.45.77. |
| 7/25/1976 | Royal Charter forms the East India Company, setting in motion a process that ultimately results in the subjugation of India under British rule. |
| 7/26/1874 | Rajarshi Shahu Chhatrapati, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social reformer, was born. |
| 7/7/1992 | Truckers call off strike. |
| 12/14/1924 | Ranbir Raj Kapoor, famous film producer, director and actor, was born. |
| 10/3/1880 | Sakuntal Sangeet held in Anandodbhav Auditorium in Pune. Annasaheb Kirloskar presented the first musical play in Marathi. |
| 6/17/1756 | Nawab Sira-ud-Daulah attacked on Calcutta with 50,000 soldiers and captured it on June 21. |
| 1/15/2000 | Baba Amte, social artist, receives Gandhi Peace Prize 1999, from the President K. R. Narayanan. |
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