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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 |
| 1/14/1761 | The third and last battle of Panipat, fought between the Marathas and the Afghan invader Ahmad Shah Abadli, started. The Marathas lost 28,000 soldiers and were virtually routed in North India thus ending the Maratha hegemony. |
| 3/27/2000 | Mohan Bagan lifts title in the National Football league in Calcutta. |
| 11/21/1993 | India and South Africa sign a historic pact on re-establishing diplomatic and consular relations after a gap of 50 years. |
| 6/13/1973 | Sir Ram Nath Chopra, great professor of Pharmacology of National Drug Research Institute of India, passed away. |
| 1/26/2001 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Ustad Bismillah Khan. |
| 3/15/1904 | Annada Shankar Rai, modern Oria and Bengali poet, was born. |
| 9/30/1996 | PVN Rao, who was to appear in court in the Pathak cheating case, gets a reprieve |
| 2/10/1990 | Saroj Mukherjee, WB's CPI(M) secretary, died. |
| 4/5/1922 | Pandita Ramabai, social worker and philosophist, passed away. |
| 4/6/1992 | Nagpur edition of Marathi newspaper 'Loksatta' was started. |
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