May12

Sun City India founded by Rao in Jodhpur.

The PM laid the foundation stone for the National Museum.

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj meet Aurangzeb and was arrested.

Security scandal, RBI extends probe to four foreign banks.

Yeltsin feels let down by the Indian nuclear tests but says that Indo-Russian ties will not be hit.

Meera Mukherjee, great artist, was born.

R. H. Tahiliyani, former Navy Chief of India Admiral, was born.

Gandhiji support the "Home Rule" for India in the name of ''justice and for good of humanity".

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.

Britain's HMS Hermes becomes Indian Navy's second aircraft carrier named INS Viraat.

India refused to sign NPT in its present discriminatory form.

George VI is crowned.

Supreme court stays Tamil Nadu Governor's orders allowing Dr. Subramaniam Swamy to prosecute Chief Minister Dr. Jayalalitha under Prevention of Corruption Act.

Dr. Rajah Sir Muthiah Chettiar, social reformer, passed away at Madras.

Samsher Bahadur Singh, modern Hindi poet, passed away.

S Vijaya Laxmi Pandit, first woman foreign ambassador, was received in US.

Washington welcomes its first female ambassador, India's Shrimati Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit.

Sardar Sikandar Hayat, President of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, resigns.

Lok Sabha okays extension of President's rule in the former BJP-ruled states.

Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan agree to set up joint working groups on a range of issues to be identified by Foreign Secretaries.

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

Arunachal Pradesh Governor refuses to quit.

Ms. Santosh Yadav (Indo-Tibetan Border Police) becomes the second Indian woman to set foot atop Mt. Everest.