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Historical Event on 12/11/1999

Gopalakrishna Gandhi, former High Commissioner to South Africa, is conferred the honorary doctorate by the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/1/1997New postal rates effective; post card-25 p, inland letter-Re.1, envelope-Rs.2 and Registration-Rs.10.
6/13/1992Security scam: assets of three SBI officials attached.
8/8/1911Following the end of a heavy monsoon, parts of India were hit by a cholera epidemic.
11/24/1991Bihar's ruling JD makes a clean sweep of all the three Lok Sabha seats in the by-elections.
8/9/1997Sonia Gandhi addresses Congress plenary session at Calcutta.
4/1/1962Metric weights became compulsory as New Weights and Measurements Metric system was intoduced by Indian Government.
2/15/1997Conference of Inter-Parliamentary Union in New Delhi.
1/30/1903Lord Curzon opened the Imperial Library in in Metcalfe Hall at Calcutta.
1/21/1956Strikes and demonstrations held in Bihar and Orissa in protest of the government's intention to revise state boundaries.
10/17/1949The Constituent Assembly of India adopted Article 370 of the Constitution making special provisions for J&K.