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Historical Event on 8/12/2000

Neelam Jaswant Singh heaves the discus to a National mark (59.53m) in the Travancore National circuit athletics meet in Thiurvananthapuram.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/18/1997Pulse Polio Immunisation Programme Phase II begins.
1/18/1997Malik Kafur, Alauddin Khilji's Commander, won the impregnable fort of Devgiri. The fort was entered by the enemy. Raja Ramdeva was taken prisoner and sent to Delhi where Alauddin recieved him untill his death in 1312.
9/27/1958Mihir Sen becomes the first Indian to cross the English Channel from Dover to Calais.
4/3/1987S.H. Vatsyayan passed away.
1/3/1997Congress President Sitaram Kesri elected leader of Congress Parliamentary Party, and Sharad Pawar appointed leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha.
12/13/1991Justice M. H Kania of Maharashtra sworn in as the 23rd Chief Justice of India.
2/21/1992Congress scores nearly three-fourth majority in Punjab Assembly elections.
9/24/1994At least 100 people die after an outbreak of pneumonic plague in the western city of Surat.
9/22/1952Bapiraju Adiv, famous Telgu novelist, poet and author, died.
1/23/1927Balasaheb Thackrey, Shiv Sena chief and Hindu Hriday Samrat, was born.