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Historical Event on 3/12/1972

Vote gives Indira Gandhi 70 \% of regional seats.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/2/1885Poet Siyaram Saran Gupt, brother of national poet Maithilysharan Gupt, was born.
1/19/1855G. Subramaniam Iyer, active worker of Indian National Congress since its establishment, was born.
1/12/1953Patel Chest Institute opened by Rajkumari Amrit Kaur. All India Khadi Board constituted with centre at Bombay.
1/5/1988India's first indigenously built 'Braille' script released short hand machine for the blind.
2/14/1929Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
7/21/1911Umashankar Jethalal Joshi, famous Gujarati poet, Hindi writer and educationist, was born at Bamna in Gujarat.
7/21/1911Babur declared battle against Rana Sangram Singh.
2/21/1993Naxals free Andhra Pradesh Congress (I) MLA P.Balaraju and a govt. official after 22 days in captivity.
7/1/1989Yashvantrao Chavan Open University was established.
3/29/1989Central Institute of Fisheries Education gets the distinction of becoming the first Fisheries University in India.