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Historical Event on 12/7/1979

First International Children's Films Festival was held in Bombay.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/15/1888Saifuddin Kitchlew, freedom fighter and President of the Punjab, was born at Amritsar.
3/6/1947Churchill opposes troop withdrawal from India at London.
2/28/1988Jaydev, famous music director, passed away.
2/7/2000Kamaluddin Ahmed, former APCC(I) president and four times Congress MP, joins the BJP.
4/1/1969India's first Atomic Energy Reactor started at Tarapore.
10/3/1997Financial and operational autonomy to be given to 97 profit-making public sector enterprises ('mini-ratnas') other than the navaratnas.
2/1/1881Cambridge Missionaries founded St. Stephen's College in Delhi.
3/21/1939Gandhi calls on world to disarm, thinks Hitler would follow.
4/12/1987V. P. Singh resigns as Defence Minister of India, K. C. Pant appointed in his place.
5/11/1987President's rule imposed in Punjab.