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Historical Event on 12/8/1875
Tej Bahadur Sapru, great leader, was born.
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| 8/6/1998 | The Maharashtra Government rejects the Srikrishna Commission findings on the 1992-93 communal riots and the serial blasts in Mumbai, but agrees to act on the panel's suggestions to refurbish the police force. |
| 1/1/1998 | The Election Commission announces the poll schedule for the 12th Lok Sabha. The polling will be on February 16, 22, 28 and March 7. Simultaneously, elections are to be held for the Meghalaya, Tripura, Nagaland, Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh Assemblies. |
| 4/1/1989 | Shridhar Madhav Joshi (S. M. Joshi), great socialist leader, passed away. |
| 8/6/1992 | A 30-member JPC constituted to probe the security scam. |
| 7/6/1992 | The centre decides to allow TV and Radio time slots for private producers. |
| 9/29/1998 | ISRO successfully launches its largest sounding rocket, Rohini (RH-560 mk, 11 total payload, 127 kg). |
| 1/1/1931 | Gopi Chand Narang, great educationist and Urdu scholar, was born at Dukki. |
| 1/22/2000 | India retains the golf title in the SAARC championship in Dhaka. |
| 10/18/1861 | Chintaman Vinayak Vaidya, historian and researcher, was born. |
| 12/5/1935 | Bipinchandra Joshi, chief of Indian Army general, was born. |
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