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Historical Event on 5/12/1993

Samsher Bahadur Singh, modern Hindi poet, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/1/1976Broadcasting of Commercial Advertisements on TV stations started.
10/21/1950China invades Tibet.
3/15/1983Karnataka beat Bombay in 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy.
4/1/1930Government announced 15 yrs and 18 yrs as minimum marriageable age for girls and boys. This is presently remodified.
12/11/1968Indian born Har Govind Khorana receives the Nobel Price for medicine and physiology.
4/5/1950Spurred by recent clashes in East and West Bengal between Muslims and Hindus, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his Pakistani couterpart Ali Khan today reached agreement on a ""Bill of Rights for Minorities"". This bill included a provision for ""drumhead justice,"" or summary justice to persons convicted of violating minority rights.
3/8/1673Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj conquered the fort of Panhala.
2/10/1897Sannidhanam Suryanarayana Sastry, educationist and writer, was born at Chiriwada, (A.P).
6/18/1995The latest deaths in northern India's hottest weather this century bring the death toll to 525 as temperatures hit 113¦F (45¦C) in New Delhi.
6/18/1995Humayun died at Delhi. Two days earlier he had slipped on the staircase of a library being constructed at the Old Fort.