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Historical Event on 12/12/1971

All the facilities and pocket money provided to the former kings were cancelled by the Indian Parliament.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/1/2000Ram Vilas Paswan, Communications Minister, launched the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited having total functional autonomy.
2/3/1760Sadashiv Bhau, under a large Maratha army, defeated the Nizam in war of Udgir.
2/18/1871Vithhalbhai Javherbhai Patel, great nation lover and veteran parliament member, was born.
8/28/1997Election Commission orders that no convicted person will be allowed to contest elections even if an appeal against the conviction was pending in a higher court.
10/2/1986Rajiv Gandhi survives assassination attempt made by Sikh extremists at Raj Ghat.
8/7/1991India successfully launches Prithvi-III, surface-to-air missile from Sriharikota.
1/17/1989Colonel J. K. Bajaj was the first Indian to reach the geographic South Pole.
11/5/1956Nehru breaks silence condemning Soviets for repression in Hungary.
10/28/2000The Royal Canadian Mounted police arrest two Sikhs, Ripudaman Singh Malik (53) and Ajaib Singh Bagri (51), in Vancouver in connection with the downing of Air India Boeing 747 en route from Canada to London in 1985.
11/20/1907Railroad workers strike in India.