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Historical Event on 10/12/1995

Inderjit Gupta re-elected General Secretary of CPI.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/11/1906Gandhiji addressed a mass meeting of Indians at Johannesburg, where they took oath of passive resistance against the newly promulgated 'Transvaal Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance'.
3/29/1869Sir Edwin Lutyens, Builder of Rashtrapati Bhavan and England's most outstanding architect of his time, was born.
6/20/1918K.K. Singh, politician and social worker, was born at Agra.
6/16/1950Mithun Chakravorty, famous Hindi film actor, was born.
12/14/1946Sanjay Gandhi, youth Congress leader, was born in New Delhi.
8/15/1947India gains independence from the British rule and Pakistan emerges as a separate Islamic nation. Around 600,000 die in clashes during the subsequent population exchange of 14 million people between the two new countries.
1/11/1986The Naval Dockyard Bombay celebrates its 250th Anniversary.
10/28/1888Gandhiji reaches London. Lives on vegatarian diet. Takes lessons in dancing and music for a short time, thinking they are necessary parts of a gentleman's equipment.
2/1/1972International Airports Authority of India established.
11/13/1917Gajanan Madhav, famous modern Hindi poet, critic and storywriter, was born.