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Historical Event on 12/5/1951

Abanindranath Tagore, a great Modern Indian Painter, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/13/1999The Indian army secures the strategic Tololing peak in the Dras sector.
1/15/1929Dr. Martin Luther King, civil rights leader of the United States of America, freedom fighter and Nobel Prize awardee, was born at America.
7/23/1927Daily radio transmission broadcasting in India started by Bombay Radio Station. This was the first Commercial Radio Station.
12/22/1947Dilip Rasiklal Doshi, cricketer (India's main slow lefty post-Bedi), was born in Rajkot.
5/4/1993Income Tax exemption limit raised to Rs.30,000; Customs duty on certain drugs reduced.
3/13/1947Lord Louis Mountbatten took charge as Viceroy of British India. He ruled upto 14th August, 1947.
10/31/1999Dr. S. S. Badrinath gets Dhanvantari Award.
2/20/1950Sarat Chandra Bose, freedom fighter, journalist, leader and elder brother of Subhashchandra Bose, passed away.
11/6/1950King Tribhuvana of Nepal flees to India.
9/25/1919Rayat Educational Institute (Rayat Shikshan Sanstha) was established.