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Historical Event on 5/12/1930

R. H. Tahiliyani, former Navy Chief of India Admiral, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/1/1958Ramon Magsaysay Award for community leadership given to Acharya Bhave.
8/1/1958Father Francis Xavier, Spanish founder of the Jesuits, 35, and three friends set sail from Lisbon, Portugal for Goa. They became the first Roman Catholic missionaries to travel to India.
9/27/1999Harshad Mehta and three others are convicted for misappropriating surplus funds of the Maruti Udyog Ltd.
11/15/1991Import curbs on capital goods relaxed.
11/5/1956University Grants Commission Act sets up UGC.
11/24/1991Bihar's ruling JD makes a clean sweep of all the three Lok Sabha seats in the by-elections.
12/11/1971The elite para-commandos and parachute battalions -India's 'Red Devils', as they are affectionately called, have an unsurpassed ethos and elan of their own. 2 Para Battalion executed a superb airborne assault operation at Tangail in East Pakistan, which was the first of its kind in the subcontinent.
10/6/1990Justice Ranganath Mishra sworn in as Chief Justice of Supreme Court.
11/21/1969Bhilai Steel Plant creates a new world record in steel-making by producing 'one heat' in four hours three minutes.
6/10/1900Jayantnath Chaudhary, former General of Indian Army General, was born.