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Historical Event on 5/12/1993
Lok Sabha okays extension of President's rule in the former BJP-ruled states.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/16/1955 | Leopold C. M. S. Amery, British minister of Colonies (India), died at the age of 81. |
| 6/9/1967 | Narayan Shripad Rajhans, alias Bal Gandharva, went into a coma in Bombay and never regained his consciousness. |
| 1/2/1960 | Raman Lamba, Cricketer was Born |
| 5/22/1963 | Rohini, Glider, became the first to successfully fly at Kanpur. |
| 9/25/1990 | Sabyasachi Mukherji, Chief Justice of Supreme Court, aged 63, died in London. |
| 1/20/1972 | Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura become states of Indian union. Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram become Union Territories. Assam's North East Frontier Agency (Nepha) was renamed as Arunachal Pradesh territory. |
| 7/16/1856 | Ishwar Chand Vidyasagar, on the request of Governor Lord Canning, instituted a law announcing the right of Hindu widows for re-marriage. |
| 2/19/1956 | Acharya Narendra Dev, the veteran freedom fighter, revolutionary, thinker and Chairman of PSP, passed away. |
| 3/10/1997 | Maharashtra government renames Osmanabad as Dharashiva. |
| 4/24/1993 | IA's Delhi-Srinagar Boeing with 141 persons, hijacked by a Kashmiri militant lands, in Amritsar. |
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