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Historical Event on 11/12/2000
Huge voter turnout for Congress Presidential poll. Seven top BSF and IAF officials die after their MI8 helicopter crashes near Lakhpat in the Rann of Kutch in Gujarat.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
3/14/1963 | Jainarain Vyas, freedom fighter, leader, social reformer, patriot and a noble son of India, passed away. |
8/21/2000 | Uma Bharti, the sanyasin Member of Parliament of the BJP, resigns from the Lok Sabha and the party's national executive comittee. |
3/16/1999 | The Shiromani Akali Dal creates a record by unanimously electing Bibi Jagir Kaur Begowal as the first woman president of the SGPC. |
1/28/1961 | Foundation-stone of the first factory of H.M.T. wrist watches laid in Bangalore. |
11/10/1901 | Formal inauguration of the new North-West Frontier Province created out of the Punjab. |
3/26/1990 | Pratap Singh Rane,Goa CM, resigns. |
2/4/1991 | An abortive bid to hijack a Calcutta-Agartala flight by a 24-year old youth. |
3/23/1931 | Bhagat Singh, Shivram Rajguru and Sukhdev, great freedom fighters and revolutionaries, were hanged for assasination of Saunders, Assistant Superintendent of Police in the Central Jail at Lahore. Bhagat Singh and his associates showed no signs of any fear as they kissed the noose, chanting ""Inquilab Zindabad"" (long live the revolution). |
5/29/1993 | Ramesh More, Shiv Sena MLA, was murdered. |
8/23/1994 | Former prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif said that Pakistan possessed a nuclear bomb and warned that an attack by India could start a nuclear war in Pakistan. |
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