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Historical Event on 6/12/1975

Allahabad court voids Indira Gandhi's election as premier, citing corruption at New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/1/2000Gopichand wins the Indian Oil Servo National badminton championship at Kochi-making it four in a row.
6/22/1935Vaman Viswanath Kumar, cricketer (useful Madras leggie who only played 2 Tests), was born in Madras.
6/5/1989Missile `Trishul' tested successfully.
1/9/1935Savita Jajodiya, famous Marathi writer, was born.
9/11/1985Sri Lanka score their first Test victory by 149 runs against India.
4/1/1933Indian Air Force was established at Drigh Road in Karachi (now in Pakistan). Subroto Mukherjee and four other officers were inducted as pilots when the first Indian Air Force Squadron was formed. The first aircraft flight joined the Indian Air Force, at that time it possessed a strength of six RAF-trained officers and 19 Havai Sepoys (literally, air soldiers); its aircraft inventory comprised four Westland Wapiti II. A army co-operation biplaned at Drigh Road as the ""A"" Flight nucleus of the planned No.1 (Army Co-operation) Squadron.
7/11/1964M C Chagla, Union Minister of Education, turns the first sod for the foundation of the 4 ft tunnel.
11/25/1879Sri Thanwardas Lilaram Vaswani, professor, saint poet, great orator and prolific writer, was born in Hyderabad, Sindh (now in Pakistan). He was the founder of Mira Movement.
12/24/2000The Government re-instates Dr. R.S.Paroda as the Director-General of the ICAR.
9/2/1993Vice Admiral V.S. Shekhawat appointed new naval chief.