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Historical Event on 10/12/1997
Queen Elizebeth II, accompanied by husband Duke of Edinburgh Philips, arrived in New Delhi on a week-long state visit to mark India's 50th anniversary of Independence.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/1/1842 | Satyendranath Tagore, Bengali officer and litterateur, was born. |
| 12/20/1948 | Ladha Ramji, brother of Amar Singh and played his only Test vs Eng in 1933-34, died at Rajkot. |
| 9/17/1956 | Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC ) established. |
| 3/29/1989 | Central Institute of Fisheries Education gets the distinction of becoming the first Fisheries University in India. |
| 5/5/1916 | Giani Zail Singh, President of India, was born in Sandhwan village, Punjab. |
| 3/19/1935 | British fire on 20,000 Muslims, killing 23. |
| 5/8/1996 | Poll counting begins. |
| 1/1/1920 | Seth Darbari Shah, great industrialist, was born in Ikhlas. |
| 11/19/1991 | Two national commissions on women set up. |
| 8/18/1920 | Harbhajan Singh, educationist and writer, was born at Lumding. |
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