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Historical Event on 12/5/1992
V. P. Singh and hundreds arrested in Barabanki on the way to Ayodhya.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/29/1885 | A group of middle-class intellectuals in India, some of them British, found the Indian National Congress to be a voice of Indian opinion to the British government. This was the origin of the later Congress Party which was founded in Bombay. |
| 9/24/1936 | It was reported that in the past two weeks over 2 million of India's depressed classes had renounced Hinduism in favor of Christianity. |
| 8/16/1980 | Communal riots continue; death toll in Uttar Pradesh City hits 130. |
| 1/28/1895 | Shankarrao Dattatray Dev, veteran Congress leader, Gandhian and Sarvoday leader, was born. |
| 7/26/1927 | Gulabrai Sipahahimalani Ramchand, cricketer (valuable all-rounder in 33 Tests for India), was born in Karachi. |
| 12/6/1946 | Anglo-Indian talks end in failure after three days at London. |
| 2/19/1919 | Arvind Gokhle, great Marathi story writer, was born. |
| 4/7/1920 | Ravi Shankar Bhattacharya, renowned Sitar player (Sounds of India), was born in Banaras, India. |
| 12/1/1963 | Nagaland becomes the 16th state of Indian union. |
| 10/11/1876 | Saint Gadgebaba, Bengali story writer and novelist, was born. |
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