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Historical Event on 4/12/1978
After several state victories, Congress party-I (for Indira) is recognized as official opposition.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/12/1978 | Akbar won the war near Ahmedabad and captured Gujrat. |
| 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). |
| 7/23/1991 | Premdatt Paliwal, president of All India Forward Block, died. |
| 9/11/1956 | The PM announced in the Lok Sabha the conclusion of the Netaji Inquiry Committee that Netaji did die in an air-crash. |
| 1/6/1948 | Security Council takes up India's complaint charging Pakistan with aggression in Kashmir. |
| 3/6/1991 | Chandrasekhar resigns as PM. |
| 7/4/1900 | Swami Shivanand Saraswati, religious leader, was born. |
| 9/13/1990 | An attempt to hijack a Coimbatore-Bangalore-Madras Indian Airlines flight IC 534 to Sri Lanka. |
| 10/4/1997 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2D), fourth satellite in INSAT-2 series, became inoperable due to power bus anomaly. This satellite had capabilities such as mobile satellite service, business communication and television outreach beyond Indian boundaries. |
| 7/7/1910 | 'Bharat History Research Mandal' was established. |
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