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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).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/7/1973 | 78 drowned as flash flood sweeped a bus into a river (India). |
| 3/30/1919 | Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act. |
| 2/22/1997 | Jockey Mark Gallagher shot at and injured in Bangalore. |
| 6/25/1880 | Syed Muhammad Zamin Ali, great educationist, poet, editor, professor, writer and founder-member of the Hindustani Academy, was born at Mustafabad village in the Rae Bareli district of U.P. |
| 10/29/1988 | Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya, freedom fighter and political leader, passed away. |
| 11/21/1992 | 27 killed in a bomb blast engineered by Bodo extremists in a bus in Assam. |
| 12/14/1953 | Vijay Amritraj, great Indian tennis player and actor (Octopussy), was born. |
| 5/28/1925 | Awadh Kishore Narain, educationist, was born. |
| 1/2/1967 | University established at Berhampur in Orrisa State. |
| 2/25/1995 | Bomb attack on a train in Assam; 27 soldiers killed. |
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