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Historical Event on 5/12/1937
George VI is crowned.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/22/1982 | South-South Conference opens in New Delhi. |
| 2/5/1992 | D.D. Lapang takes over as the new CM of Meghalaya. |
| 5/17/1995 | Three North Eastern States removes restricted area permits (RAP). |
| 5/10/1917 | Ramanand Maru Amin, great novelist, was born in Baloor, Mangalore. |
| 9/10/1858 | Manilal Nathubhai Dwivedi, great author and father of modern Gujarati poems, was born. |
| 3/31/1663 | Mir Jumla, Mughal Commander, passed away in Bihar. |
| 3/18/1922 | Mohandas K. Gandhi ""Mahatma,"" the great spirit, sentenced by British authorities to six years in prison for sedition at Sabarmati. Gandhi was sentenced just eight days after he was arrested. The British acted hastily after government officials in London and India were criticized for not arresting him sooner. In London, the Secretary of State for India was forced to resign because of the controversy over Gandhi. In India, the arrests of Gandhi and other Indian nationalists had only increased sympathy for their cause. |
| 9/6/1993 | CPI (M) wrests Congress (I) bastion of Chowringhee in the by-elections to the WB Assembly; Durgapur and Kurseong also won by CPI (M). |
| 11/22/1915 | Mohandas Gandhi returns to India. |
| 2/1/1942 | Lt Col HT Hogan raised the Regiment at Malir Cantonment. |
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