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Historical Event on 9/12/1998

Bihar flood toll mounts to 320.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/22/1988PM announces Government's decision to drop Defamation Bill.
11/22/1997Yasser Arafat, President, Palestinian National Authority, laid the foundation stone for Indo-Arab cultural centre at Hyderabad.
3/6/1995Arun Tamhankar, great journalist, died.
7/24/1998India signs a deal with Russia for purchasing the aircraft-carrier.
4/27/1918Gandhiji attends Viceroy's War Conference at Delhi and addresses it in Hindustani; subsequently tours Kaira District to raise recruits for army.
12/15/1991Satyajit Ray, film maestro, awarded Special Oscar for his lifetime achievement.
1/17/1952The pension work of CDA (Factories), Calcutta and the Defence civilians in ordnance factories was transferred to the office of the CDA (P), Allahabad.
8/11/1999The last total solar eclipse of the millenium was seen in northern parts of India and France. This eclipse lasted for 2 min and 23 sec.
9/8/1965Pakistan commenced its drive into the Indian Punjab using its 1-armoured division with the aim to foreclose India's options north of the Beas-Sutlej river line, after foiling the southern most divisional attack mounted by 4-Mountain Division.
8/1/1953All Private Airlines were nationalised by establishing of All Airlines India International.