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Historical Event on 2/12/1997

Parkash Singh Badal, President, Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal), sworn in as the Chief Minister of Punjab for third time.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/26/1992BJP President Dr. Murali Manohar Joshi hoists the national flag at the heavily-guarded Lal Chowk in Srinagar.
10/13/1967Vasant Prabhu, famous music director, died.
11/16/1992Reservation, Supreme Court rejects economic criteria.
3/3/1931Gandhi and Viceroy Irwin sign Delhi Pact giving Indians right to make salt if civil disobedience stops.
6/1/1993Speaker disqualifies four Ajit group MPs.
2/27/1992Narasimha Rao elected Congress (I) President in the party poll held after a gap of 20 years.
4/12/1992The 350-tonne Buddha statue salvaged from the Hussain Sagar where it had sunk in 1990.
1/26/1997Delhi becomes the first state in India to enforce a ban on smoking in all public places.
3/28/1914Komagata Maru sailed from Hong Kong to Vancouver with 351 Sikhs and 21 Punjabi Muslim youths under the captaincy of Sardar Gurjeet Singh as a part of 'Ghadar' Movement.
7/28/1912Ramchandra Gondo Ginde, famous neuro surgeon, was born.