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Historical Event on 12/5/1999

India's Yukta Mookhey is crowned Miss World.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/22/1994L. V. Prasad, father of South Indian film industry, died.
7/13/1929Jatindranath Das started fast strike.
6/1/1904Four Language panel were used for Rangoon. This panel had languages namely Burmese, Urdu, Tamil and Chinese.
11/5/1956Nehru breaks silence condemning Soviets for repression in Hungary.
11/12/1880Senapati Bapat (Pandurang Mahadev), armed freedom fighter, was born in Parnar (Maharashtra).
3/26/199914 tonnes of heavy water leaked into the second unit of the Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS) at Kalpakkam during an in-service inspection.
7/21/1947Indian Constitution Assembly accepted the tricolour flag as its National Flag. This flag is with three equal horizontal stripes of Saffron (Sacrifice), White (Truth) and Green (Prosperity) and a Chakra is superimposed on white (Dharma Chakra on the capitol of Ashoka's Pillar at Sarnath) in blue colour having 24 spokes. The ratio of the width to length is two to three.
6/8/1968Madhuri Mani Iyyer, famous singer of Karnatak Gharana, passed away.
5/19/1979Pandit Hajari Prasad Dwivedi passed away.
4/9/1993Lt. Gen. B.C. Joshi to be the next army chief.