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Historical Event on 12/5/1872
Bhai Vir Singh, great poet, social worker, writer, educationist, musician, humanitarian and Padma Bhushan awardee, was born at Amritsar.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/4/1991 | Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha presents mid-term budget, cut in food and fertiliser subsidy, amounting to Rs. 934 crore, proposed. |
| 10/28/1999 | The Delhi High Court stays TRAI's plan to introduce free incoming calls on mobile phones from November 1. |
| 12/3/1956 | Manik Bandopadhyay, modern Bengali novelist and story writer, passed away. |
| 2/13/1968 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee elected President of the All India Jan Sangha. |
| 5/20/1677 | Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj won the fort of Jingi. |
| 9/6/1995 | Salil Chaudhary, famous music director in Hindi film industry, passed away. |
| 8/29/1998 | Prasar Bharti ordinance promulgated. |
| 9/4/1983 | INSAT-1B runs into snag, its solar array fails to deploy fully. |
| 6/20/1918 | K.K. Singh, politician and social worker, was born at Agra. |
| 6/3/1901 | Mahakavi G. Sankara Kurup, Malayalam poet, was born. He was the first winner of the conveted Gyaanpeeth Award in 1965 for his poems "Odakkuzhal" in Malayalam. |
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