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Historical Event on 11/12/1984
Rajiv Gandhi elected Congress (I) President.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/25/1916 | S. M. Pandit, famous painter, was born. |
| 5/6/1997 | 12 persons killed and eight seriously injured in two blasts in east Delhi. |
| 9/9/1991 | Gold ornaments pledged by the Goans to the Portugese bank returned to owners. |
| 5/14/1956 | Govt announces that decimal coinage will be introduced in India from April 1, 1957. |
| 1/21/1963 | Acharaya Shivpujan Sahai, famous Hindi writer, poet and novelist, died. He was editor of Hindi journals like ""Marwari Sudhar"", ""Samanwaya"", ""Adarsh"" etc. He wrote 400 short stories and 67 biographies. His novel ""Dehati Dunia"" is acclaimed as first regional novel in Hindi. |
| 3/24/1993 | Six of Memon family escape to Karachi. |
| 6/12/1999 | Jalagam Vengal Rao, former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, died in Hyderabad. |
| 7/5/1882 | Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927), classical singer and Muslim mystic, was born. He was instrumental in bringing Sufism to the music. |
| 1/1/1877 | Queen Victoria was proclaimed as 'The Empress of India' in Delhi Darbar. |
| 5/10/1905 | Pankaj Malik, music director, was born. |
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