Washington DC, Virginia, Maryland Indian Community - washingtondcIndian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 7/12/1996

Ram Vilas Paswan presents railway budget 96-97 with 10\% hike in freight and upper class journeys.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/14/1895George VI, King of England (1936-52), was born.
10/24/1995A total eclipse of the sun witnessed from India to Vietnam.
5/2/1908Police in Calcutta discover a cache of explosives for use in alleged anarchist plot.
3/10/1940Banwarilal Bhagwandas Purohit, famous leader of Vidarbha, was born.
6/26/1995Madhya Pradesh declared ""Tiger State"" as it homes one sixth of the world's tiger population.
10/15/1676King of England permitted the East India Company to mint the Rupee and Paisa coins at Bombay.
1/29/1999Alok Kumar of Punjab defeated Devendra Joshi of Maharashtra at the IIT complex at New Delhi.
5/13/1996Lok Sabha election results (534 out of 537) announced, giving BJP (161) the position of the largest single party.
10/16/1999Indian women claimed bronze in the Asian team chess championship in Shenyang
2/20/1997RBI relaxes capital adequacy norms for commercial banks.