12 MAY HISTORY TODAY
May 12
Today in Indian History
Events for May 12
Events for May 12
| 12-May-1459 | Sun City India founded by Rao in Jodhpur. |
| 12-May-1666 | Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj meet Aurangzeb and was arrested. |
| 12-May-1906 | Gandhiji support the “”Home Rule”” for India in the name of ”justice and for good of human |
| 12-May-1915 | Rash Behari Bose, revolutionary leader, left India by boarding a Japanese steamer ”Sanuki Maru” under assumed name of P. N. Tagore to dodge the British forces. |
| 12-May-1923 | Meera Mukherjee, great artist, was born. |
| 12-May-1930 | R. H. Tahiliyani, former Navy Chief of India Admiral, was born. |
| 12-May-1937 | George VI is crowned. |
| 12-May-1949 | S Vijaya Laxmi Pandit, first woman foreign ambassador, was received in US. |
| 12-May-1952 | Washington welcomes its first female ambassador, India’s Shrimati Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. |
| 12-May-1955 | The PM laid the foundation stone for the National Museum. |
| 12-May-1966 | Sardar Sikandar Hayat, President of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, resigns. |
| 12-May-1984 | Dr. Rajah Sir Muthiah Chettiar, social reformer, passed away at Madras. |
| 12-May-1987 | Britain’s HMS Hermes becomes Indian Navy’s second aircraft carrier named INS Viraat. |
| 12-May-1992 | Ms. Santosh Yadav (Indo-Tibetan Border Police) becomes the second Indian woman to set foot atop Mt. Everest. |
| 12-May-1992 | Security scandal, RBI extends probe to four foreign banks. |
| 12-May-1993 | Lok Sabha okays extension of President’s rule in the former BJP-ruled states. |
| 12-May-1993 | Samsher Bahadur Singh, modern Hindi poet, passed away. |
| 12-May-1995 | India refused to sign NPT in its present discriminatory form. |
| 12-May-1995 | Supreme court stays Tamil Nadu Governor’s orders allowing Dr. Subramaniam Swamy to prosecute Chief Minister Dr. Jayalalitha under Prevention of Corruption Act. |
| 12-May-1997 | Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan agree to set up joint working groups on a range of issues to be identified by Foreign Secretaries. |
| 12-May-1998 | Yeltsin feels let down by the Indian nuclear tests but says that Indo-Russian ties will not be hit. |
| 12-May-1998 | Bill Clinton, US President, asks India to sign the CTBT. |
| 12-May-1999 | Arunachal Pradesh Governor refuses to quit. |
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