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Historical Event on 12/5/1991
The government reduces visa fees for tourists intending to visit India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/22/1912 | Gandhiji accompanied Gokhale on tour of South Africa, Laurenco Marques, Mozambique and Zanzibar. He gave up European dress and milk and restricted himself to diet of fresh and dried fruits. |
| 2/23/1952 | Employees Provident Fund Bill and Miscellaneous Provision Act passed in the Lok Sabha. |
| 2/23/1962 | Union government sets up an Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR) formed by the Department of Atomic Energy and work on Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) started. |
| 4/25/2000 | West Bengal police nab Belal alias Lalu Mian, the suspected mastermind behind the hijacking of IC-814 IA flight to Kandahar last December, from a hideout in North 24 Parganas district. |
| 7/6/1927 | Vyankatesh Dingambar Madgulkar, great Marathi story writer and novelist, was born. |
| 6/24/1966 | Bombay-New York Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die. |
| 12/31/1943 | Ben Kingsley Scarborough, English actor (Gandhi, Betrayal, Maurice), was born. |
| 12/12/1905 | Mulkraj Anand, Indo-Anglian novelist and critic of international repute, was born in Peshawar, Pakistan. |
| 3/1/1924 | Naresh Mehta was born. |
| 3/23/1992 | G. S. Dhillon, former speaker of Lok Sabha, passed away. |
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