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Historical Event on 6/12/1997
Sitaram Kesri elected president of Congress I (6224 votes. Sharad Pawar-888; Rajesh Pilot-354).
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| 10/16/1999 | Geet Sethi bagged the Fred Davis award as the "Billiards Player of the Year 1998-99' |
| 7/1/1990 | General Sunith Francis Rodrigues takes over as Chief of the Army Staff. |
| 7/1/1909 | Madanlal Dhingra, revolutionary, assassinated Sir William Curzon Wyllie, a prominent Anglo-Indian, at the Imperial Institute in London. |
| 5/2/1968 | Lok Sabha passed the Public Providend Fund Act. |
| 11/23/1926 | Satya Sai Baba, Hindu universalist renaissance charismatic guru, educationalist and worker of miracles, was born. |
| 9/21/1992 | Tarachand Barjatya, film producer, passed away. |
| 7/18/1992 | Kanandevi, famous Bengali actress, passed away. |
| 12/1/1989 | V. P. Singh is named the new prime minister. |
| 11/22/1997 | Yasser Arafat, President, Palestinian National Authority, laid the foundation stone for Indo-Arab cultural centre at Hyderabad. |
| 8/28/1896 | Firak Gorakhpuri, Urdu poet and Gyanpeeth awardee, was born. |
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