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Historical Event on 5/12/1993

Lok Sabha okays extension of President's rule in the former BJP-ruled states.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/18/1898Damodar Hari Chapekar, India's first revolutionary, was hanged in the Yervada Central Jail. He was punished for killing the Rand and Ayrest British Officials.
1/14/1995Ban on VHP re-imposed.
1/1/1987United Nations General Assembly announced this year to be observed as the ""International Year of Shelter for the Homeless"". (5-10-87).
1/31/1960Milkha Singh at Lahore sets record for 200m in 20.7s.
8/22/1993The first batch of IAF troops landed in the capital city of Mogadishu.
10/27/1907Brahma Bandhav Upadhyay died.
9/26/1820Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (Banerji), great Indian educationist, social reformer, litterateur, father of Bengali prose and who gave the Bengalees their first Primer in 1855, was born in the village of Birsingha in Midnapore district of Bengal.
9/18/2000President K. R. Narayanan presents the Dada Saheb Phalke award for the year 1999 to film maker Hrishikesh Mukherjee.
9/18/2000Humayun died at Delhi. Two days earlier he had slipped on the staircase of a library being constructed at the Old Fort.
8/29/1982Shree Maa Anandmayee of universal fame passed away. Her body was laid to rest at Shree Anandamayee Ashram in Kankhal.