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Historical Event on 12/5/1898
Josh Malihabadi, famous Urdu poet, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/24/1994 | At least 100 people die after an outbreak of pneumonic plague in the western city of Surat. |
| 9/24/1994 | ShahJahan, Mughal emperor of India, was born at Lahore. |
| 11/6/1931 | Chithira Tirunal Bala Ramavarma, ascended throne and ruled state of Travancore as Maharaja, passed away. |
| 3/22/1907 | Perturbed by a new law restricting Asiatic immigrants, Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney now living in South Africa, organized a campaign of civil disobedience to resist the statute popular bill passed by the new Boer government of the Transvaal Colony. The Asiatic Registration Bill was considered by Gandhi unjust and discriminatory to the large Chinese and Indian populations. However, the government expressed the belief that the ordinance was popular. ""Over 90 percent of the white people thoroughly approve of it,"" said Sir Gilbert Parker, a Conservative member of Parliament. |
| 3/12/1996 | Last session of the 10th Lok Sabha ends. |
| 10/28/1996 | Press Council of India to set up a 5-member committee headed by Chairman P.B. Sawant to inquire into the attack on journalists outside the New Delhi residence of Kanshi Ram. |
| 4/22/1942 | Galagnath (Vyanktesh Tirko Kulkarni), famous Kannad novelist, passed away. |
| 6/23/1992 | Tin Bigha Day protest in India of corridor opening to Bangladesh. |
| 12/11/1908 | New law suspends trial by jury and increases penalties for 'sedition.' |
| 8/6/1997 | Army confirms social activist Sanjay Ghose's death who was abducted by ULFA. |
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