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Historical Event on 12/5/1950
Sikkim becomes a protectorate of India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/19/1997 | BJP and BSP agree for a coalition government in Uttar Pradesh. |
| 6/16/1990 | GOI announces higher procurement/minimum support prices for all major kharif crops. |
| 9/26/1820 | Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (Banerji), great Indian educationist, social reformer, litterateur, father of Bengali prose and who gave the Bengalees their first Primer in 1855, was born in the village of Birsingha in Midnapore district of Bengal. |
| 9/4/1962 | Kiran Shankar More, great Indian wicket-keeper in 49 Tests 1986-93, was born in Baroda. |
| 8/29/1991 | Second operational Indian Remote Sensing satellite (IRS-1B) launched by a Russian launch vehicle, Vostok. It is still in service. |
| 10/28/1998 | The 1997 B.C. Roy National Award was presented to 18 medical experts. |
| 3/20/1921 | Dr. P. C. Alexander, Governor of Maharashtra, was born. |
| 1/21/1956 | Strikes and demonstrations held in Bihar and Orissa in protest of the government's intention to revise state boundaries. |
| 2/10/1999 | P. Gopi Chand (A.P.) and Aparna Popat (Karnataka) won the men's and women's singles titles respectively in the National badminton championship in Delhi. |
| 2/7/1975 | Banke Bihar, mystery and religious story writer, passed away. |
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