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Historical Event on 5/12/1955

The PM laid the foundation stone for the National Museum.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/3/1970Chonira Beliappa Muthamma, first women career diplomat, appointed ambassador to Hungary.
12/25/1995First major multi-organ transplant in the country performed in Apollo Hospital in Madras.
5/25/1894Biharilal Chakravorty, bengali poet, passed away.
4/2/1997A division bench of Mumbai High Court holds that a married woman of a joint Hindu family can stake a claim to her father's property.
9/10/1872Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji ""Ranji"", Maharaj Jamsaheb of Nawanagar and noted cricketer, was born in village Sarodar near Jamnagar, Kathiawad. He was referred as ""The prince of a little state, but the king of a great game"". He also played for Sussex.
6/11/1997I.K. Gujral, PM, asserts that India had not deployed the `Prithvi' ballistic missile anywhere in the country or on the border.
5/1/1998The Konkan Railway running for 760-km is dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. This was an extention from Ratnagiri.
4/4/1971Pakistan reports seizure of nine Indian army vehicles.
6/25/16586th Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb arrested his father Shahjahan and put him in Agra Fort Jail.
6/25/1658Daud Shah assasinated Mujahid Shah to become the fourth Bahmani Sultan, but himself was murdered by a slave.