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Historical Event on 5/12/1999

Arunachal Pradesh Governor refuses to quit.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/8/1927Lal Krishna Adwani was born in Karachi (now in Pakistan).
1/1/1973Indian General Insurance Corporation nationalised.
8/16/1991Indian Airliner Boeing 737 crashes in Manipur's Churachandpur district killing all 69 aboard.
9/23/1862Sriniwas Shastri, great patriot and veteran politician, was born.
6/5/1929S.V. Subramanian, great Hindi writer, was born at Virakeralanpudur, Tamil Nadu.
10/26/1999India is re-elected to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
9/12/1686Aurangzeb ended Adilshah's kingdom. The garrison lost heart and surrendered Sikandar who was sent to the state prison at Daulatabad. Bijapur was invested and the city opened its gates to the Mughals. Bijapur as an independent kingdom ceased to exist.
2/3/1998The BJP releases its election manifesto promising to make India a nuclear state; build a Ram temple at Ayodha and work for a uniform civil code.
8/29/1612Battle at Surat in India; English fleet beats Portuguese.
5/25/1999India blasts its way into the global satellite launch vehicle market with the PSLV-C2 deploying two foreign satellites besides the Indian remote sensing satellite, IRS-P4.