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Historical Event on 12/5/2000

Postal staff go on a nationwide indefinite strike which the Government termed as 'illegal'.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/3/1900Nana Patil, great revolutionary, was born.
4/16/1958Raghuram Adwai Bhat, great Indian left-arm spinner 1983-84, was born at Mangalore.
2/10/1859General Horsford defeats Begum of Oude & Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny.
1/30/1903Lord Curzon opened the Imperial Library in in Metcalfe Hall at Calcutta.
2/13/1861Colonel Bernard Irwin attacks & defeats hostile Chiricahua Indians.
7/27/1992Amjad Khan, famous film actor, died.
11/5/1945Case was filed against the Azad Hind Army Soldiers at Red Fort in Delhi.
5/16/1945Prahraj Gopalchandra, modern author of Oria language, passed away.
12/27/1976The Kangla Tongbi war memorial built for 221 members who laid down their lives to repulsed several waves of Japanese attacks. Advance Base Depot is shifted to Jabalpur. The original memorial was erected on 15 April 1946 from local stone and the main epitaph displayed above is of black Naga stone.
3/1/1971Central Translation Bureau was setup as a subordinate office under the Ministry of Home Affairs. The Bureau undertakes translation work of manuals, codes, forms and other non-statutory procedural literature of various ministries, departments, offices of the Central Government and Undertakings, Banks etc.