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Historical Event on 12/12/1959
Krishnammachari Srikkanth, cricketer (big-hitting Indian opener 1981-92), was born in Madras.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/10/1886 | Rameshwari Nehru, social worker and freedom fighter, was born at Lahore. |
| 4/4/1990 | Lata Mangeshkar wins 1989 Dada Saheb Phalke award. |
| 10/18/1968 | Narendra Deepchand Hirwani, cricketer (Ind leggie 16 wickets vs WI on debut in 1988), was born in Gorakhpur. |
| 6/17/1950 | Syed Wazir Ali, cricketer (7 Tests for India), passed away. |
| 8/16/1932 | Britain instituted new electoral plan for India: to allow limited untouchables and giving them separate representation. |
| 7/16/1969 | Air Chief Marshal Pratap Chandra Lal, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, DFC. became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 15/01/1973. |
| 3/14/1999 | Arjun Atwal won the Indian Open Golf in Calcutta. |
| 1/2/1899 | Monks started living in Belur Math. |
| 1/18/1968 | The Resolution on Official Languages was passed by both the houses of the Parliament wherin the need to formulate a more intensive and comprehensive programme for the progressive use of Hindi for Official purposes, preparing annual assessment report for reviewing the progress, formulating a programme for the co-ordinated development of the other languages included in the 8th schedule alongwith Hindi, adopting of a tri-langual formula, making the knowledge of either Hindi or English compulsory for recruitment to the services of the Union, and inclusion of all the languages of the 8th schedule of the Constitution and English as the optional medium for the exams conducted by the union Public Service Commission at the appropriate time, has been stressed. |
| 11/14/2000 | Jharkhand, the 28th State of the Indian Union, comes into being and the new Governor, Prabhat Kumar, and the Chief Minister, Babulal Marandi, take office. |
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