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Historical Event on 5/12/1984

Dr. Rajah Sir Muthiah Chettiar, social reformer, passed away at Madras.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/22/1992The Supreme Court asks UP Government to halt construction in Ayodhya.
4/22/1998India and Bangladesh resolve to work together to ''root out terrorism'', push bilateral trade and harness river waters of the region.
9/20/1878Hindu"", an English weekly in Madras with G. S. Aiyer as its Editor, was first published with only 80 copies.
12/28/1981New Government led by the Congress (I) leader K. Karunakaran installed in Kerala.
9/29/1997Crown Prince of Spain, Felipe de Borbon, visits India.
5/2/195340 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers.
12/16/1980Fisher Wealthy Hornsinger, an American social worker and who worked for Adult Education in India, passed away.
9/17/1885Keshav Sitaram Thakrey, journalist, social reformer and historian, was born.
11/21/1991An Inter Governmental Coference on Youth Tourism, held for first time, was hosted by the Government of India under the aegis of the World Tourism Organisation. (18-11-91).
4/8/1774Narayan Rao's posthumous son, Madhav Rao, was seen as a challenge to Raghunath Rao only when he was 10 days old.