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Historical Event on 12/5/1998
Jaswant Singh and Pramod Mahajan take over as the new Foreign Minister and Minister for Information and Broadcasting. Jagmohan takes over as Minister for Communications.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/14/1989 | 'Poorna Kumbh', India's largest religious gathering held once in 12 years, begins at Allahabad. |
| 5/13/1857 | Sir Ronald Ross, bacteriologist, member of Indian Medical service, Nobel awardee and editor of 'Science Progress', was born at Almora, UP. |
| 7/1/1927 | Chandrashekhar, former Prime Minister of India, was born. |
| 11/6/1950 | King Tribhuvana of Nepal flees to India. |
| 4/8/1887 | Ramnarayan Vishwanath Pathak, famous Gujrati litterateur critic, poet and story writer, was born. |
| 9/23/1965 | The Indian Army secured the Kashmir Valley and the only object left was to clean out the remnants of the Gibraltar Force. Under the guidance of United Nations, the cease-fire came into effect. |
| 5/13/1918 | Balasarswati, famous dancer of Bharat Natyam, was born. |
| 11/2/1950 | India rebukes Mao for invasion of Tibet. |
| 9/20/1944 | Rameshchandra Saxena, a one Test batsman (India vs England 1967), was born in Delhi. |
| 11/9/1841 | Edward VII, King of England (1901-10), was born. |
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