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Historical Event on 5/12/1997

Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan agree to set up joint working groups on a range of issues to be identified by Foreign Secretaries.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/27/2000After three decades, English was again made compulsory in Gujarat schools from Standard V from the next academic year.
10/16/1999Geet Sethi bagged the Fred Davis award as the "Billiards Player of the Year 1998-99'
1/31/1948Cities swept by riots in wake of Gandhi murder.
12/10/1918Rowlatt Act introduced by Lord Chelmsford.
6/28/1857Nana Sahib proclaimed himself as the Peshwa and called for the total extermination of the British power of India at Bithoor.
12/17/1938Charuchandra Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali story writer and novelist, died.
2/1/194217 Indian Division's were withdrawn over vast stretches and the British evacuation in Burma was the longest in British military history. The Division was to subsequently extract terrible retribution from the Japanese Army during World War II and to destabilise the Indian Economy with forged notes of 5, 10 and 100 Rupees.
9/11/1913Waman Ganesh Talwalkar, Marathi journalist and story writer, was born.
11/18/1988Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Delhi on a three-day visit.
1/2/1991Thiruvananthapuram airport declared India's fifth International Airport.