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Historical Event on 5/12/1923
Meera Mukherjee, great artist, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/21/1999 | Leander Paes was seeded number one in double's ranking. This was his highest double ranking. |
| 10/5/1868 | Laxmi Narayan Barua, Assamia novelist, was born. |
| 10/5/1868 | Rumi, famous Muslim Sufi poet, was born. |
| 11/2/1976 | Lok Sabha passes the 42nd Constitution Amendment Bill making India a Socialist Secular Republic and laying down the fundamental duties of citizens. |
| 8/14/1996 | Amrit Rai, son of Munshi Premchand, died. |
| 4/27/1994 | Supreme Court strikes down section 309 of the Indian Penal Code(which makes suicide a punishable offence)- violative of Article 21. |
| 5/3/1962 | Hundreds of Muslims are killed in clashes with Hindus in West Bengal. |
| 5/7/1861 | Guru Dev Rabindranath Thakur alias Tagore, novelist, painter, educationist and freedom fighter, was born in Calcutta. |
| 1/27/1984 | First unit of Atomic Energy Production Centre started at Kalpakkam. |
| 11/11/1947 | Temple of Vithoba in Pandharpur opened for Harijans. Ganpatrao Tapase was the first harijan to enter the temple. |
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