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Historical Event on 2/12/1993
The baggage rules relaxed further.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/22/1975 | Vasant Krishna Desai, famous music director, died. |
| 2/1/1968 | United Nation's Conference on Trade and Development opens in New Delhi. |
| 3/14/1931 | First Indian talkie film 'Alam Ara' released at Majestic Cinema, Bombay. Directed by Ardeshir Irani, the film was 11,152 ft. long and was produced by Imperial Film Co., Bombay and beared censored No. 10043 on March 11. The most remarkable thing about this film was birth of sound in Indian films, it came with a bang and quickly displaced the silent movies and brought revolutionary changes in the whole set up of the industry. |
| 1/26/1882 | Telephone line started working between Mumbai and Calcutta. |
| 10/24/1945 | UNO Day. |
| 3/15/1998 | Mr. Vajpayee is appointed Prime Minister. The number of MPs supporting the formation of a government by the BJP stands at 264 in a house of 539, just short of the working majority of 270. However, the President sees the figure as crossing the half-way mark as the Telugu Desam decides to remain neutral. Earlier, the Congress(I) conveys to the President its decision not to stake claim to form a government. |
| 9/3/1906 | Prithviraj Kapoor, veteran film actor, was born in Peshawar. His first film was 'Challenge' (1929). He is the founder of Prithvi Theatre in Bombay. He is remembered for his immortal role of Akbar is film 'Mugul-E-Azam'. |
| 3/31/1997 | The Bombay Stock Exchange crashes by 300 points. |
| 6/12/1975 | Drugaprasad Dhar, former deputy president of Planning Commission, died. |
| 2/3/1905 | Sir Padampat Singhania, great industrialist, was born at Kanpur. |
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