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Historical Event on 11/12/1997
India elected to executive board of UNESCO.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/22/1915 | Hem Barua, famous Assami and English litterateur, was born. |
| 2/1/1855 | East India Railways were held for formal inauguration; Howrah station was opened. |
| 2/9/1874 | Govind Tryambak Darekar, Marathi poet, was born. |
| 9/15/1909 | Thiru Conjeevaram Natarajan Annadurai, ''Anna'', founder of DMK (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, also an editor, writer, orator and patriot, was born in a weaver community of Kanchipuram. |
| 3/17/1959 | Dalai Lama XIV flees from Tibet after Chinese military occupied Tibet. |
| 8/12/1602 | Abul Fazal, Akbar's minister, was killed on the instructions of Jahangir. |
| 6/24/1996 | Nanchil K. Manoharan, former DMK Finance Minister, expelled from the party. |
| 1/17/1992 | Shankar Ramchandra (Mamrao Date), veteran journalist, passed away. |
| 11/5/1996 | United Front suffers a setback with one of its constituents, the Madhya Pradesh Vikas party, deciding to walk out and merge with Congress (I). |
| 7/31/1997 | Election Commission agrees to grant national party status to Bahujan Samaj Party but asks it to give up its election symbol--elephant. |
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