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Historical Event on 5/12/1984
Dr. Rajah Sir Muthiah Chettiar, social reformer, passed away at Madras.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/11/1913 | Iron ropes bridge known as 'Laxman Jhula' was constructed over Ganga at Hrishikesh |
| 8/19/1994 | Rupee made fully convertible on current account. |
| 12/12/1996 | India and Bangladesh arrive at a settlement to share Ganga water. |
| 1/18/1936 | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), famous English writer and author, died in Burwash, England at 70. He was a young journalist in British India. He wrote in verses, stories, novels childen's stories some of these were ""The Jungle Book, Kim and Just-50 stories"" and was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 for 'Kim' (Indian based story). |
| 6/7/1993 | Sai Baba escapes attempt on life. Four assailants and two bodyguards were killed. |
| 3/4/2000 | Geeta Mukherjee (76), veteran communist leader, died of a massive heart attack in New Delhi. Popularly known as 'Geetadi', she won every Lok Sabha election from Panskura in West Bengal since 1980. |
| 12/8/1920 | A. Adivi Reddy, social reformer and educationist, was born at Chandragiri, AP. |
| 2/8/1912 | Girishchandra Ghosh, famous Bengali actor and dramatist, passed away. |
| 2/1/1942 | 17 Indian Division's were withdrawn over vast stretches and the British evacuation in Burma was the longest in British military history. The Division was to subsequently extract terrible retribution from the Japanese Army during World War II and to destabilise the Indian Economy with forged notes of 5, 10 and 100 Rupees. |
| 12/24/1998 | A.B.Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announces increased cash awards for Asian Games medallists. |
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