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Historical Event on 12/12/1908
Gaandhiji released from Volksrust Gaol. Indian National Congress adopts resolution on South Africa, criticizing the harsh, humiliating and cruel treatment to British Indians in South Africa as injurious to English Empire.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/27/1995 | 73 people died in a coal mine accident in Gaslitand in Dhanbad district, Bihar, when flood water leaked into the mine. |
| 3/22/1999 | 57 prisoners in Indian and Pakistan jails are repatriated to their respective motherlands at the Attari-Wagah joint checkpost on the border in Amristar district. |
| 11/6/1951 | Judge M. Patanjali Sastri became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 03/01/1954. |
| 5/11/1888 | Asaf Ali, lawyer, nationalist, writer and connoisseur of music and arts, was born. |
| 4/29/1979 | Raja Mahendra Pratap, great revolutionary freedom fighter, passed away in New Delhi at the age of 93. |
| 12/16/1867 | Amy Carmichael, Scotch Irish missionary, was born. She went to India in 1895 under the Zenana Missionary Society, remaining there without furlough until her death 56 years later. An invalid during her last 20 years, she worked to rescue children from the Hindus. |
| 11/27/1993 | Splendid bowling by Anil Kumble (6 for 12) helps India to beat West Indies by 102 runs in the Hero Cup finals in Calcutta. |
| 9/13/1965 | Pakistanis bomb Bombay. |
| 4/10/1982 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1A) launched. First operational multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite procured from U.S.A.(Cape Canaveral). |
| 10/30/1991 | Bansilal Ladda, veteran freedom fighter and law expert, passed away. |
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