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Historical Event on 5/12/1998

Bill Clinton, US President, asks India to sign the CTBT.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/18/1992Ordinance cuts minimum poll campaign time to 14 days from 20 days.
10/31/1966Mihir Sen swam Panama Canal in 34 hours 15 minutes.
2/10/1979Itanagar was declared as capital of Arunachal Pradesh.
8/21/1995Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, noted physics scientist, died at the age of 84. He was one of the world's leading astro-physicists for his contributions to the study of stars. Chandrasekhar had received the highest award in Science--the Noble Prize in Physics in 1983.
9/18/1992M. Hidayatullah, former Vice President and Chief Justice, died. He was 87.
1/11/1958Two lakh Indians in East Pakistan were rounded up and lodged in concentration camps.
7/18/1946U.K. Parliament approves British Cabinet mission report on India but Churchill says that the mission went too far in offering India independence outside of the Commonwealth.
2/26/1971Noel David, Hyderabad off-spinner who played ODI in 1997, was born.
2/1/1994PM Rao attends the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos, Switzerland.
10/25/1995Narsimha Rao, PM, addresses the 50th anniversary session of the UN.