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Historical Event on 5/12/1949

S Vijaya Laxmi Pandit, first woman foreign ambassador, was received in US.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/14/1993Bombay High Court upholds Goa C.M. Ravi Naik's disqualification by speaker under anti-defection bill.
7/14/1856Gopal Ganesh Agarkar, great social worker, was born.
8/16/1932Britain instituted new electoral plan for India: to allow limited untouchables and giving them separate representation.
4/24/1995K. Karunakaran elected to Rajya Sabha.
2/8/1936Jawaharlal Nehru elected president of Indian National Congress.
12/22/1998The Patents Bill gets Rajya Sabha approval.
10/5/1997Kiran Bedi, India's first woman police officer, was awarded the Joseph Beuys prize for her work in reforming the largest prison of the country.
1/18/1999Gul Panag (20) from Delhi was crowned Femina Miss India Universe at the Miss India 1999 beauty pageant in Pune.
8/3/1996Leander Paes wins a bronze (tennis) at Atlanta, bringing India an Olympic medal after a gap of 16 years.
4/24/1993Congress dissidents K. N. Singh, Natwar Singh, K. L. Fotedar and Shiela Dikshit suspended.