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Historical Event on 6/12/1960
783 Sikhs are arrested while demonstrating for an independent Sikh state in New Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/15/1993 | Vinod Kambli scores 227 vs Zimbabwe. This was his second consecutive Test 200. |
| 11/24/1989 | Tendulkar scores a record cricket test 50 aged 16 years 214 days. |
| 8/15/1994 | At Churchgate railway station on platform No.1, noted film actor A.K. Hangal signalled the start of theatre in a train by waving a green flag. |
| 6/16/1934 | M. Muthuraman, noted Hindi writer and professor, was born at Dindigul in Madurai (Tamil Nadu). |
| 2/20/1947 | British Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced in the House of Commons, London, that Britain will release India before June 1948 and for this purpose Lord Louis Mountbatten was appointed to work as the new Viceroy of India. |
| 5/25/1917 | Abdul Vavakunju Ummasalumma Khader, freedom fighter, was born in Kerala. He was hanged on September 10, 1943. |
| 3/18/1922 | Mohandas K. Gandhi ""Mahatma,"" the great spirit, sentenced by British authorities to six years in prison for sedition at Sabarmati. Gandhi was sentenced just eight days after he was arrested. The British acted hastily after government officials in London and India were criticized for not arresting him sooner. In London, the Secretary of State for India was forced to resign because of the controversy over Gandhi. In India, the arrests of Gandhi and other Indian nationalists had only increased sympathy for their cause. |
| 11/7/1997 | RBI Governor Dr. Chakravarti Rangarajan appointed new Governor of Andhra Pradesh. Dr. Bimal Jalan, Member-Secretary, Planning Commission, will take over as RBI Governor. |
| 4/7/1993 | Narsimha Rao,PM, arrives in Bangkok on a three-day visit to Thailand. |
| 10/10/1964 | Ravi Shankar performs at Town Hall in New York. |
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