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Historical Event on 7/12/1996
Ram Vilas Paswan presents railway budget 96-97 with 10\% hike in freight and upper class journeys.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/20/1965 | Under the leadership of Commander M. S. Kohli, Indian Trackers concurred Mount Everest. Captain A. S. Chima and Sherpa Nawang Gombu were the first to reach the summit. |
| 11/1/1956 | Indian Government re-organizes the states according to linguistic principles and inaugurates second Five-Year Plan. The states declared were Madhya Pradesh, Punjab by merging Patiala & PEPSU, Mumbai was divided in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka. Union Territories namely Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshdeep Minikai and Amin Divi were approved. |
| 1/15/1888 | Saifuddin Kitchlew, freedom fighter and President of the Punjab, was born at Amritsar. |
| 7/20/1982 | Mira Behn (90), disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, passed away. |
| 2/22/1905 | Purushotamsing Bajaj, industrialist and social worker, was born at Shikarpur (Sind). |
| 8/18/1900 | Vijayalakshmi Pandit, first woman President of U.N.O. General Assembly, was born. |
| 5/13/1883 | Henk JFM Sneevliet, leader RSAP/editor Spartacus (Dutch-Indies), was born. |
| 12/25/1943 | Japanese bombers raid Chittagong. |
| 9/22/1937 | The last contingent of Indian freedom fighters was send to Andaman & Nicobar Islands. |
| 11/23/1937 | Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, eminent scientist, passed away due to heart attack. In 1901, he proved that ""plants and animal have similar touch sense"". He founded Bose Research Institute in Calcutta and authored world famous books ""Response in Living and Non-Living""(1902) and ""Nervous Merchanism of Pl |
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