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Historical Event on 5/12/1906

Gandhiji support the ""Home Rule"" for India in the name of ''justice and for good of humanity"".

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/5/1924Gandhiji was released after operated on for appendicitis in Sassoon Hospital, Poona.
10/10/1910Dr. Dwarkanath Kotnis, famous doctor who worked in China, was born at Solapur, Maharashtra.
4/19/1960Meeting of Afro-Asian Conference at New Delhi.
9/14/1992S. A. Banerjee, cricketer who played one Test for India in 1948 without scoring any runs but took 5 wkts, died.
11/30/1990Admiral Laxmi Narayan Ramdas takes over as Chief of Naval Staff.
1/31/1995ISRO and Intelsat sign a $100 m 10-year-long agreement for leasing some of the capacity of the Indian-built INSAT-2E (scheduled for launch in 1997).
5/18/1945Bhagwat Subramaniam Chandrasekhar, cricketer (brilliant Indian leggie 1964-79), was born in Banglore. He received Arjun Award and Padmashree awards in 1972.
2/8/1989Mrs. Gro Harlem Brundtland, PM of Norway, was awarded 1988 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development.
3/15/1901Guru Hanuman was born at Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan. He was the pioneer and contributor of wrestling in India. He was bestowed with the Padamshri in 1983. His pupil Satpal and Kartar Singh won Gold Medals in Asian Games.
10/12/1995Inderjit Gupta re-elected General Secretary of CPI.