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Historical Event on 1/12/1996
Supreme Court holds that horse racing is not gambling, but a game of skill.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/15/1924 | Mahinder Singh, social worker, was born at Amritsar. |
| 12/11/1998 | Poet Pradeep (Ramchandra Divedi) died at 1850 hrs today. |
| 9/8/1993 | Mandal Commission recommendation of 27\% job reservation for the backward classes brought into effect; 'Creamy' layer excluded. |
| 3/30/1923 | New financial measures come into force, including restoration of Salt Tax. |
| 8/9/1893 | Shivpujan Sahai, famous Hindi story writer and novelist, was born at Bihar in a middle class family. |
| 3/19/1936 | Raghav Kaneria, great artist and decorator, was born. |
| 2/28/1937 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar discovers the white dwarf maximum mass limit. |
| 5/21/1991 | Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minster (1984-91), assassinated by human bomb explosion plotted by LTTE at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu, 40 km from Madras, at 10.20 P.M. |
| 5/2/1926 | Hindu women gain right to seek elected office. |
| 12/12/1961 | Portuguese civilians are evacuated amid fears of an Indian troop invasion at Goa, Daman and Diu. |
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