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Historical Event on 12/11/1996
T. N. Seshan retires. M. S. Gill becomes the new election Chief Election Commissioner.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/17/1903 | Joseph, versatile author in Malyalam language and critic Butshshor, was born. |
| 5/27/1930 | India's major cities are seething with unrest following the arrest of Mahatma Gandhi and thousands of his followers in the campaign of civil disobedience against British rule. Civil unrest in Bombay, where at least six were killed and sixty injured. |
| 11/18/1901 | V. Shantaram alias Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre, famous film maker and actor (Chitrapat Maharashi), was born. |
| 3/28/1995 | Haridev Joshi, former Chief Minister of Rajasthan and former Governor of Assam Meghalay, passed away. |
| 2/12/1742 | Nana Phadnavis, one of the important members of Peshwa kingdom and the Maratha master-diplomat, was born. |
| 5/30/1919 | Rabindranath Tagore returned back the honour as a protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. |
| 1/12/1895 | Dr. Yellapragada Subbarow, saintly scientist and nobel prize winner, was born at Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh. |
| 10/5/1805 | Lord Charles Cornwallis, Governor General, died of ill health at Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh. |
| 5/7/1994 | Dr. S.P. Tripathy, Director-General of ICMR, retired after 32 years of distinguished service in the ICMR, and Dr. G.V. Satyavati took over as the new Director-General of ICMR in July 1994. She became the first woman scientist in the country to head not only ICMR but any Research agency in independent India. |
| 7/25/1995 | India reaps a record harvest of food grain of 189.77 million tonnes ('94, 95). |
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