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Historical Event on 4/12/1997

Maharashtra assembly adopts bill banning interviews for admitting students to pre-primary schools.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/31/1986Bombay Telephone Nigam renamed as Mahanagar Telephone Nigam.
5/13/1962Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1884-1963) retired from the post of first President.
10/17/1996President's rule reimposed in U.P.
10/26/1930Dr. Waldemar Modecal Haffkine, famous scientist, bacteriologist and professor, died in Paris. He had invented the Cholera vaccine in 1893 and a vaccine for Plague in 1897 at the Grant Medical College, Bombay.
8/30/1908Ganpatrao Tapase, senior freedom fighter and former Governor of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, was born.
1/22/1986Indira Gandhi Rajbhasha Awards instituted.
12/12/1905Mulkraj Anand, Indo-Anglian novelist and critic of international repute, was born in Peshawar, Pakistan.
5/17/1775Marathas were badly mauled in the battle of Arras by Col. Keating in the first Anglo - Maratha war.
6/29/1873Micheal Madhusudan Dutta, first Bengali modern poet, died.
7/22/1992The Supreme Court asks UP Government to halt construction in Ayodhya.