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Historical Event on 3/12/1972

Vote gives Indira Gandhi 70 \% of regional seats.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/20/1952Vasant Patankar, famous Marathi writer, was born.
12/13/1999The Government lodges protest with the Pakistani Rangers following the discovery of a tunnel near the Indo-Pak border.
8/15/1995P.V Narasimha Rao introduces the mid-day meal scheme for the primary school children under the Central Government Welfare Programme.
8/22/1919Girijakumar Mathur, famous modern Hindi poet, was born.
5/19/1975Farm truck packed with wedding party run over by a train, killing 66 in truck, at 40 miles south of Pune.
7/9/1999Ashok Mitra (82), noted writer, academician and former bureaucrat, died in Calcutta.
1/19/2000M.A. Chidambaram (81), leading industrialist and chairman of the MAC Group, died in Chennai.
11/12/1929First Maharastrian Governor Shripad Balwant Tambe was appointed as Governor of Nagpur.
2/3/1969Thiru Conjeevaram Natrajan Annadurai ""Anna"", a great patriot, writer, editor, orator, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and the commencer of Dravid Movement, passed away. He was the key person in formation of Anna Dramuk Party.
7/2/1992Six new ministers inducted into the Union Cabinet.