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Historical Event on 8/12/1992
72 militants surrendered before Punjab CM Beant Singh.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
8/16/1980 | Communal riots continue; death toll in Uttar Pradesh City hits 130. |
2/8/1971 | Kanhaiyalal Maniklal Munshi, writer, administrator, leader and founder of Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, died. |
8/27/1781 | Haider Ali and the Britishers fought the battle of Pallilore. |
1/16/1996 | Union Cabinet Minister V.C. Shukla, Balram Jhakar, Madhavrao Scindia, and others including BJP President L.K. Advani, Arjun Singh and Devi Lal chargesheeted in the multi-crore Jain `Hawala' case. CBI seeks sanction to prosecute them. L.K. Advani resigns from Lok Sabha membership. |
9/9/1997 | Pravin Thipsay becomes India's third chess Grand Master. |
12/24/1999 | Koneru Humpy won the under-12 boys' title and P. Harikrishna won the Under-14 boys' title at the Asian Youth Chess Championship in Ahmedabad. |
12/25/1879 | Sadhu T.L. Vaswani (1879-1966), altruistic Sindhi poet and servant of God, who found several Hindu missions in India and seven Mira Educational Institutions in his lifetime, was born. |
8/15/1997 | Freedom fighter's pension to be doubled from the existing Rs. 1,500. |
5/10/1909 | Bellari Shammanna Keshvan, internationally famous librarian, was born. |
7/29/1984 | Troops were sent to Hyderabad to quell communal riots. |
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