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Historical Event on 11/12/1997

India elected to executive board of UNESCO.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/25/1975Bundelkhand University was established in Uttar Pradesh.
7/8/1972Sourav Chandidas Ganguly, cricketer (centuries in 1st two Tests for India 1996), was born in Calcutta.
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10/14/1910Further unrest took place in Lhasa, Tibet, following the arrest of Dalai Lama's agent by the Chinese on the Chinese frontier with India.
8/17/1986In the Jehovah's Witnesses' case, the Supreme Court rules that ""singing National Anthem is not obligatory"".
3/12/1942British troops vacate the Andaman in Gulf of Bengal.
7/12/1674Chhatrapati Shivaji signed a friendship treaty with East India Company.
1/29/1931Gandhiji sails for England as Congress delegate to Second Round Table Conference. This conference was attended by Madan Mohan Malaviya and Sarojini Naidu.
3/7/1921Kulwant Singh Virk, famous Hindi writer and journalist, was born.
11/30/2000Jagdev Singh Talwandi, a former Akali Dal leader, was the unanimous choice as the new SGPC president.