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Historical Event on 7/12/1996
Ram Vilas Paswan presents railway budget 96-97 with 10\% hike in freight and upper class journeys.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
8/26/1996 | Supreme Court asks Harshad Mehta to pay Rs. 217 crore to the Income Tax department. |
3/20/1993 | Kondapally Seetaramaiah, founder of the Peoples War Group of Naxalities in Andhra Pradesh, arrested. |
10/1/1941 | No. 3 Squadron, similarly Audax-equipped, was raised at Peshawar. |
3/1/1924 | Naresh Mehta was born. |
1/23/1997 | 50,000 miners in Orissa lose jobs as 57 mines are closed down. |
8/15/1947 | At the stroke of midnight, India is free after 163 years of British Raj. At the same time Muslims win a degree of freedom from Hindus. They have their own separate dominion Pakistan in the British Commonwealth Sect. |
9/21/1992 | Tarachand Barjatya, film producer, passed away. |
10/13/1978 | Maharashtra branch of Forward Block Party merged in Indira Congress. |
12/5/1898 | Josh Malihabadi, famous Urdu poet, was born. |
1/30/1948 | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the spiritual leader of Indian independence, was shot and killed by a Hindu extremist. The 78-year-old Gandhi was shot at point-blank range as he was walking through a garden to a pergola, where he was to deliver his daily prayer meeting. |
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