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Historical Event on 12/5/1872
Bhai Vir Singh, great poet, social worker, writer, educationist, musician, humanitarian and Padma Bhushan awardee, was born at Amritsar.

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10/4/1999	Kerala High Court orders Election Commission to booth-wise counting. The EC is likely to move the Supreme Court against this order.
4/22/1996	National Stock Exchange launches a new equity index - the NSE 50.
8/15/1947	On the the stroke of mid-night on 14th August 1947, India became independent and was partitioned. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru became the first prime minister and Dr. Rajendra Prasad became the first president of free India. The mixed economy policy was taken on a five-year plan basis for economic development. On 26th January 1950, India became a democratic and is the biggest democracy of the world today. In 1956, on the basis of languages, India was divided into 14 states and 6 union territories. Today, there are 27 states and 7 union territories.
12/25/1889	Pandurangi Kodanda Rao, journalist, Hindi writer and social worker, was born in Visakhapatnam, A.P.
2/6/1950	N. R. Pillai was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 13-05-1953.
6/30/1999	The first ever direct bus service between India and Bangladesh gets delayed due to heavy rain.
2/24/2000	The Subrahmanyam Committee report tabled in the Lok Sabha. The panel concluded that the Pakistan intrusion in Kargil took the Indian security establishment by surprise.
5/25/1979	Commercial Unity Day started.
9/18/1972	Government of India announces increase of minimum bonus to workers from 4\% to 8.33\%.
5/17/1995	Three North Eastern States removes restricted area permits (RAP).

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Historical Event on 12/5/1872 Bhai Vir Singh, great poet, social worker, writer, educationist, musician, humanitarian and Padma Bhushan awardee, was born at Amritsar.

Historical Event on 12/5/1872
Bhai Vir Singh, great poet, social worker, writer, educationist, musician, humanitarian and Padma Bhushan awardee, was born at Amritsar.