12th May History in India
| 1459 | Rao Jodha Founded Jodhpur. |
| 1666 | Under the treaty of Purandar ,Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj reached Agra to meet Aurangzeb. |
| 1915 | The revolutionary Rasbihari Bose left India aboard the Japanese yacht Sanuki Maru. |
| 1921 | The First National Hospital Day was celebrated . |
| 1926 | Airship Norgay become the first vessel to fly to the North Pole. |
| 1949 | Vijayalakshmi Pandit become the first foreign woman ambassador of indepent india. |
| 1993 | Famous Hindi poet Shamsher Bahdur Singh passed away. |