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Historical Event on 12/5/1951
Abanindranath Tagore, a great Modern Indian Painter, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/21/1997 | Jockey Vasant Shinde retires. |
| 1/12/1995 | Kerala's birthrate drops to 17.5 per 1000. |
| 1/12/1995 | Firuz Shah Tughluq, the third emperor of Delhi, died at the age of 83. |
| 2/6/1950 | N. R. Pillai was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 13-05-1953. |
| 9/6/1674 | Faced with a critical situation, De la Haye had to capitulate and surrender St Thome to the Dutch who allowed the Sultan of Golconda to re-occupy it. |
| 1/8/1884 | Keshav Chunder Sen, nationalist leader of Bengal, social worker and good orator of Brahma Samaj, passed away at his home in Lily Cottage, Calcutta. He was one of the first Indians to sow the seeds of secularism in our country. He strongly believed that education was the basic necessity to change the society. |
| 1/26/1972 | Amar Jawan, a national memorial, established at India Gate, New Dehli. |
| 10/25/2000 | The BJP Legislature Party in UP elects Rajnath Singh its leader. |
| 9/26/1992 | Indian Airlines hike fare by 9 percent. |
| 2/22/1997 | India outplays Poland in the final hockey `Test' and win series 2-0. |
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