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Historical Event on 8/12/1973

Dayanand Balkrishna Bandodkar, first Chief Minister of Goa, Daman and Diu, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/31/1958First Earth Satellite Explorer I was launched from Cape Kennedy.
8/18/1957Tilak Raj was appointed the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed his office for four years till 6th September, 1961.
11/29/1989Voters oust Gandhi and Congress party
2/20/1868Sisir Kumar, Basanta Kumar and Hemanta Kumar, three brothers, first published the 'Amrita Bazar Partika', a weekly issue in Bengali.
9/30/1963The USSR openly louded Indian view on Kashmir issue. This was against Pakistan's motives.
2/13/1861Colonel Bernard Irwin attacks & defeats hostile Chiricahua Indians.
5/11/1995In central Kashmir, militants burnt the Charar-e-Sherif shrine (the tomb of Sufi saint Sheikh Noorudin Noorani) built in 1460 by Zain-ul- Abidin.
1/6/1959Kapildev Ramlal Nikhanj, cricketer (India's finest all-rounder 1978-94, Cup-1982), was born in Chandigarh.
10/26/1961Heavy fighting flared up between India and Communist China in their three-year-old dispute over border lines in the Himalayas. Each side accused the other of initiating the fighting that began along the Tibetan border early in October.
10/29/1952Amalgamation of the Steel Corporation of Bengal with Indian Iron and Steel Company Ltd. to be effective from 1st January 1953 under the latter's name.