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Historical Event on 9/12/1994

UN Secretary General Ghali visits New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/29/1947Abolition of ""untouchability"".
8/22/1933Inhabitants of Partabgarh face starvation as Opium was now outlawed. They had been living from the sale of opium for the past 800 years.
8/21/1978Vinoo Mankad, cricketer, died. He played 44 tests for India and had 2109 runs and took 162 wickets.
12/5/1991Sarkaria report accepted.
1/27/1948Gandhiji visits Mehrauli Muslim Fair.
6/18/1879Venketeshwar Bachhali, famous physics scientist, was born.
1/18/1930Gurudev Rabindranath Thakur (Tagore) and Mahatma Gandhi met at Sabarmati Ashram.
6/19/1877Pandurang Chimanaji Patil, famous agriculturist of Maharashtra, was born.
8/11/2000Koneru Humpy was crowned the youngest British Ladies chess champion at the end of eleventh and final round in the Smith and Williamson British chess championship in Somerset.
2/17/1931Viceroy of India Lord Irvin accepted Mahatma Gandhi as leader of people and invited him at Vicregal Lodge (now known at Rashtrapati Bhavan). After the event, Winston Churchill, who later became Prime Minister of Britain, referred Gandhiji as ""the Half-Naked Fakir of India"".