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Historical Event on 3/12/1993

Powerful bomb blasts at twelve various places in Mumbai takes 317 lives.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/5/1938Anil Rakeshi, great poet, Hindi writer and critic, was born at Nahan (H.P.).
12/13/1999The Government lodges protest with the Pakistani Rangers following the discovery of a tunnel near the Indo-Pak border.
9/8/1997English chosen as the official language of Dravidian University which was set up at Kuppam (Andhra Pradesh) jointly by the southern states.
5/23/1993Channa Reddy,Rajasthan Governor, shifted to Tamil Nadu. Motilal Vohra appointed in UP and B. Satyanarayan Reddy moved to Orissa.
4/4/1938A. M. Chakrabarty was born in Sainthia at West Bengal. He found that under the optimum conditions of time, temperature and nutrients the Hydrocarbon-eating "qualities'' of four diffrent strains of bacteria could be transferred into one. He also showed that this super-strain of bacteria reproduces itself.
5/27/1968Second Jawaharlal Nehru award for International Understanding given to Reverend Martin Luther King posthumously.
8/8/1990Violent protests rock Bihar against Mandal Commission Report implementation.
9/4/1825Dadabhai Naoroji, first Indian in British parliament and merchant, was born at Navsari, Gujarat. He coined the word 'Swaraj'.
5/23/1975P. S. Bapat, victoria cross winner Lieutenant General, passed away.
2/22/1905Purushotamsing Bajaj, industrialist and social worker, was born at Shikarpur (Sind).