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Events for May 12

12-May-1459	Sun City India founded by Rao in Jodhpur.
12-May-1666	Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj meet Aurangzeb and was arrested.
12-May-1906	Gandhiji support the ""Home Rule"" for India in the name of ''justice and for good of human
12-May-1915	Rash Behari Bose, revolutionary leader, left India by boarding a Japanese steamer ''Sanuki Maru'' under assumed name of P. N. Tagore to dodge the British forces.
12-May-1923	Meera Mukherjee, great artist, was born.
12-May-1930	R. H. Tahiliyani, former Navy Chief of India Admiral, was born.
12-May-1937	George VI is crowned.
12-May-1949	S Vijaya Laxmi Pandit, first woman foreign ambassador, was received in US.
12-May-1952	Washington welcomes its first female ambassador, India's Shrimati Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit.
12-May-1955	The PM laid the foundation stone for the National Museum.
12-May-1966	Sardar Sikandar Hayat, President of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, resigns.
12-May-1984	Dr. Rajah Sir Muthiah Chettiar, social reformer, passed away at Madras.
12-May-1987	Britain's HMS Hermes becomes Indian Navy's second aircraft carrier named INS Viraat.
12-May-1992	Ms. Santosh Yadav (Indo-Tibetan Border Police) becomes the second Indian woman to set foot atop Mt. Everest.
12-May-1992	Security scandal, RBI extends probe to four foreign banks.
12-May-1993	Lok Sabha okays extension of President's rule in the former BJP-ruled states.
12-May-1993	Samsher Bahadur Singh, modern Hindi poet, passed away.
12-May-1995	India refused to sign NPT in its present discriminatory form.
12-May-1995	Supreme court stays Tamil Nadu Governor's orders allowing Dr. Subramaniam Swamy to prosecute Chief Minister Dr. Jayalalitha under Prevention of Corruption Act.
12-May-1997	Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan agree to set up joint working groups on a range of issues to be identified by Foreign Secretaries.
12-May-1998	Yeltsin feels let down by the Indian nuclear tests but says that Indo-Russian ties will not be hit.
12-May-1998	Bill Clinton, US President, asks India to sign the CTBT.
12-May-1999	Arunachal Pradesh Governor refuses to quit.