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Historical Event on 8/12/1973
Dayanand Balkrishna Bandodkar, first Chief Minister of Goa, Daman and Diu, died.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
5/1/1946 | Joanna Lumley, actress (Abs Fab, OHM's Secret Service), was born in Kashmir, India. |
10/18/1995 | President's Rule imposed in UP and the State Assembly put in suspended animation. |
3/17/1991 | The first Indian Remote Sensing Satellite IRS-IA completes three years of successful operation. (18-3-91). |
12/22/1977 | Nalinibala Devi, Assamese poet, passed died. |
3/22/1969 | The first public sector petrochemical organisation was inaugurated. |
7/24/1985 | Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sikh leader Sant Harchand Singh Longowal of Akali Dal signed a peace contract known as 'Punjab Accord' thus ending the four-year agitation in Punjab. |
10/28/1991 | Chruchill Alemao of Goa set free by court. |
5/19/1904 | Jamshedji Nasarvanji Tata, famous industrialist and father of modern technology, passed away at Nauheim, Hesse-Nassau, France. He commenced cotton mills in Bombay and Nagpur and founded the Tata Iron and Steel Company, which is one of the largest integrated steel mills in the world. |
11/19/2000 | Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, agriculture scientist, gets the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 1999. |
5/29/1992 | Agni-India's IRB missile successfully test-fired from Orissa coast for the first time since May 22, 1989. |
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