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Historical Event on 7/12/1999

Rajendra Kumar (71), legendary actor who acted in over 150 Hindi films, died in Mumbai.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/20/1900Sumitranandan Pant was born.
11/11/1998V. M. Devaraj (78), DMK leader and former MLA, passed away after a brief illness. He represented Vellore in 1980, 1984 and 1989. He was a close associate of the DMK founder, C. N. Annadurai.
11/5/1930Arjun Singh, leader of Madhya Pradesh, was born.
9/18/1972India becomes the top film producer of the world with 433 feature films made in 1971.
2/6/1931Motilal Gangadhar Nehru, revolutionary, founder of 'Swaraj Party', political leader and barrister, passed away at Lucknow.
8/7/1905The first political documentary ootage was the Great Bengal Partition Movement: Meeting and Procession shot by Jyotish Sarkar and Jamshedji F. Madan in Calcutta.
5/30/1987Goa becomes the 25th state of India.
7/24/1999Vimala Ranadive (84), senior CPI(M) leader, died in Mumbai.
2/4/1976Lok Sabha's life extended by one year.
3/1/1910The Dalai Lama is welcomed in Darjeeling.