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Historical Event on 12/5/1657

Murad proclaimed himself Emperor of India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/1/1983This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Communications Year"".
3/26/1997Andhra Pradesh Assembly passes a Bill to amend the Prohibition Act, ending the state's 2-year experiment with total prohibition.
8/9/1952New Delhi reports that 20 mil. Indian peasants were imperiled by crop failures.
6/18/1988V.P.Singh defeats Congress rival Sunil Shastri in Allahabad Lok Sabha election.
4/26/1995Indian Newspaper Society (INS) calls off stir plans following Government conceding a major demand of the newspaper industry by putting newsprint on the Open General Licence (OGL) and abolish the condition requiring newspapers to buy two tonnes of indigenous newsprint in order to import one tonne.
1/10/1980President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy invited Indira Gandhi to form Government.
12/24/1999Koneru Humpy won the under-12 boys' title and P. Harikrishna won the Under-14 boys' title at the Asian Youth Chess Championship in Ahmedabad.
11/9/1980P. C. Joshi, former General Secretary of Indian Communist Party, passed away.
11/15/1982S. N. Katkar, famous poet and former editor of 'Yugvani', died.
2/28/1951Karsan Devji Ghavri, cricketer (Indian lefty medium pacer early 80s), was born in Rajkot.