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Historical Event on 10/12/1997

Queen Elizebeth II, accompanied by husband Duke of Edinburgh Philips, arrived in New Delhi on a week-long state visit to mark India's 50th anniversary of Independence.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/8/1992Luggage rate of railway passengers hiked by 30 per cent.
7/31/1992Sitar maestro Pt. Ravishankar wins the Magsaysay Award.
4/23/1994Ibrahim Sulaiman Sait, former Indian Union Muslim League president, floats a new party - the Indian National League.
2/27/1912Lawrence Durrell, Britsh writer (Alexandria Quartet, Private Country), was born in Darjeeling, India. .
9/20/1878Hindu"", an English weekly in Madras with G. S. Aiyer as its Editor, was first published with only 80 copies.
1/22/1998Second Lieutenant Punit Datta is posthumously selected for the nation's highest peace time gallantry award, Ashok Chakra.
6/1/1959N.G. Ranga resigned from the Indian National Congress and took up the leadership of the newly formed Swatantra Party.
3/31/1959Dalai Lama fled China & was granted political asylum in India.
1/22/2000India retains the golf title in the SAARC championship in Dhaka.
3/9/1997Mumbai takes Wills Trophy in Mohali.
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