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Historical Event on 5/12/1937
George VI is crowned.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/22/1994 | Sushil, great Jain Muni Acharya, passed away. |
| 4/17/1941 | Office of Price Administration was formed which handled the rationing of essential commodities. |
| 8/3/1886 | Maithili Sharan Gupta, first man of modern Hindi poetry and literature, writer, patriot and social worker, was born at Chirgaon village near Jhansi. |
| 10/1/1997 | Gul Mohammed (36), world's shortest man, died in New Delhi. Standing 56.16 cm tall, Mohammed entered the Guinness Book of World Records in 1992. |
| 6/13/2000 | Yashwant Sinha, Finance Minister, announces a one-time settlement of outstanding loans below Rs. 10 crores in a move aimed at ridding the public sector banks of Rs. 51,000 crores of bad loans. |
| 7/7/1948 | Damodar Valley Corporation, first public corporation, was established. |
| 10/28/1981 | Underground Metro Train Compartments were tested on trial basis at Calcutta. |
| 7/2/1941 | Muhammad Baqa Jilani, one Test for India, 0-55, died at the age of 29. |
| 1/24/2000 | Supreme Court imposes, with immediate effect, a ban on industries in Delhi and Haryana from discharging untreated industrial effluents into the Yamuna. |
| 3/24/1924 | Virendrakumar Bhattacharya, Gyanpeeth award winner and Assamia novelist, was born. |
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