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Historical Event on 12/5/1950
Sri Aurobindo Ghosh, great revolutionary, freedom fighter and teacher, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/25/1959 | Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister, declares in New Delhi that India will defend Bhutan and Sikkim if attacked by China. |
| 8/10/1992 | Ram Niwas Mirdha appointed Chairman of the JPC on scam. |
| 5/1/1994 | Political party Shiromani Akali Dal was established. |
| 7/7/1901 | J. Watsan Harod started a branch of Gramophone Company at Calcutta. |
| 7/16/1992 | Shankar Dayal Sharma is appointed President. |
| 1/22/1903 | Shankar Das Banerji, lawyer and politician, was born at Calcutta. |
| 3/9/1993 | AIADMK severs alliance with the Congress in Tamil Nadu. |
| 1/5/1893 | Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), universalist Hindu, great saint, social reformer, writer and litterateur was born at Gorakhpur. He was the renaissance founder of Self Realization Fellowship (1925) in US, author of famed 'Autobiography of a Yogi' (1946), popular book globalizing India's spiritual traditions. |
| 12/8/1992 | World-wide protest against Ayodhya demolition, temples burnt in Pakistan and Britain; Advani, Joshi, Singhal arrested; Nation observes 'bandh'. |
| 12/8/1996 | Sachin Tendulkar became the youngest cricketer to make 3000 runs in test cricket (at the age of 23 yrs and 228 days.) |
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