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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
8/26/1996Supreme Court asks Harshad Mehta to pay Rs. 217 crore to the Income Tax department.
3/20/1993Kondapally Seetaramaiah, founder of the Peoples War Group of Naxalities in Andhra Pradesh, arrested.
10/1/1941No. 3 Squadron, similarly Audax-equipped, was raised at Peshawar.
3/1/1924Naresh Mehta was born.
1/23/199750,000 miners in Orissa lose jobs as 57 mines are closed down.
8/15/1947At 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.
9/21/1992Tarachand Barjatya, film producer, passed away.
10/13/1978Maharashtra branch of Forward Block Party merged in Indira Congress.
12/5/1898Josh Malihabadi, famous Urdu poet, was born.
1/30/1948Mohandas 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.