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Historical Event on 12/11/1996
T. N. Seshan retires. M. S. Gill becomes the new election Chief Election Commissioner.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
12/11/1996 | Sher Shah defeated Humayun for the second time at Hardoi in U.P. in the battle of Kanauj. |
8/28/1928 | Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon, noted physicist and scientific advisor to the Prime Minister, was born at Mangalore in Karnataka. |
4/20/1971 | India won Cricket Test Rubber' for the first time after defeating West Indies Cricket Team. |
11/22/1971 | Indian and Pakistan governments protested violations of national airspace along the western border, but aerial conflict between the respective air arms began, preceding full-scale warfare between India and Pakistan by 12 days. |
3/24/1977 | Morarji Desai elected leader of Janata Party and sworn in as the Prime Minister of India at New Delhi. Later he formed his cabinet. He was in the office of Prime Minister till July 28, 1979. This was first non-Congress Government in India. |
12/23/1990 | All India BMAC and VHP hand over theĀ historicalĀ and archaeological documents to support their claim to Home Ministry officials. |
11/11/1980 | The Hindustan Times says the 'British have reverted to what they basically are & a small, little people with small, little minds inhabiting a small, little island in the Atlantic.' |
6/1/1959 | The Chinese occupy Tibet and Dalai Lama flees to India. |
1/11/1859 | Lord Curzon, Governor General and Viceroy, was born. |
7/6/1998 | Moshood Abiola, the detained Nigerian politician and presumed winner of the 1993 elections, died in Abuja. |
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