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Historical Event on 5/12/1987
Britain's HMS Hermes becomes Indian Navy's second aircraft carrier named INS Viraat.

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2/18/1993	Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"".
8/15/1950	Indian Constitution goes into effect.
12/21/2000	Central Zone and South Zone are declared joint winners after the game ends in a tie in the final of the Deodhar Trophy one day cricket tournament in Lucknow.
7/11/1964	M C Chagla, Union Minister of Education, turns the first sod for the foundation of the 4 ft tunnel.
7/28/1997	Calling and holding of bandhs by political parties and other associations or organisations declared 'Illegal and unconstitutional' by a Full Bench of the Kerala High Court.
1/6/1999	Shiv Sena activists dug up the Kotla pitch in Delhi with a view to prevent the Indo-Pakistan first Test which was to commence from Jan. 28.
3/22/1991	President withholds assent to the pension bill of Members of Parliament.
7/29/1984	Troops were sent to Hyderabad to quell communal riots.
7/16/1996	Supreme Court says dowry demand even during marriage talks is an offence.
4/17/1996	Indian Railways bars AIDS patients from using trains.

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Historical Event on 5/12/1987 Britain's HMS Hermes becomes Indian Navy's second aircraft carrier named INS Viraat.

Historical Event on 5/12/1987
Britain's HMS Hermes becomes Indian Navy's second aircraft carrier named INS Viraat.