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Historical Event on 5/12/1998

Bill Clinton, US President, asks India to sign the CTBT.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/9/1948Administration of Mayurbhanj State taken over by the Government of India.
2/28/1928C. V. Raman invented 'Raman Effect' of scattered light, which led him in achieving the 'Nobel Prize'.
9/24/1815John Sevier, Indian fighter (Gov/Rep-Tn), died at the age of 70.
8/15/1947India gains independence from the British rule and Pakistan emerges as a separate Islamic nation. Around 600,000 die in clashes during the subsequent population exchange of 14 million people between the two new countries.
9/11/1888Henry Heras, famous artist and an active member of the Indian Historical Records Commission, was born in Barcelona, Spain.
11/15/1993Supreme Court rules that the CEC is supreme
11/15/1993Jesuit father and first Englishman S.J.Thomas Stephens arrived at Goa in a Portuguese ship. He settled here and died in 1619.
9/1/1798England signs treaty with Nizam of Hyderabad, India.
9/4/1980Second Commonwealth Regional Heads of Government Conference in New Delhi.
2/23/1962The Cholera Research Centre was established at Calcutta (renamed as the National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases in 1979).