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Historical Event on 2/12/1999

The Centre dismisses the Rabri Devi Government in Bihar and imposes President's rule.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/16/1858Baithi, Laikha, Ratna, Maani, and the women who participated in Mairath Kranti at Gudgaon, all were hanged.
4/12/1983Richard Attenborough's 'Gandhi' wins 8 Oscars.
12/11/1968Indian born Har Govind Khorana receives the Nobel Price for medicine and physiology.
2/3/1954More than 500 pilgrims died in an accident on the river bank at the ""Kumbha Mela"" in Allahabad.
9/5/1957Wealth Tax Bill passed in Rajya Sabha.
5/8/1954Indian Government decided to integrate Chandranagar in West Bengal which was under the rule of the French.
5/10/1936Dr. Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari, great freedom fighter, politician, journalist and muslim leader, passed away.
10/30/1994Swaran Singh, 87, former External Affairs minister, died.
12/11/1926Kamala Kant Pandey was born at Varanasi. He was the first Indian agriculture graduate to win the London Exhibition Scholarship. He was elected fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1966. In 1975, he made the discovery of a ""revolutionary technique in plant breeding
1/16/2000P. Moses, Indian High Commission Staff member, badly beaten up and abducted by Pakistani intelligence operators in Islamabad.