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Historical Event on 12/12/1959
Krishnammachari Srikkanth, cricketer (big-hitting Indian opener 1981-92), was born in Madras.
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| 9/29/2000 | Tata Ramachandra Prasad to be the next Cabinet Secretary. |
| 10/1/1949 | 'Marathi Rangbhumi' , a drama company, established. |
| 11/3/1945 | Temporary Octroi Mandal established. |
| 6/22/1959 | Iyengar Kasturi Srinivas, great politician and journalist, passed away. |
| 5/20/1991 | General Election (10th) of India begins. |
| 12/7/2000 | A five-member ULFA group guns down 26 non-Assamese people, mostly Hindi and Bengali-speaking, at Sonpura near Arunachal Pradesh Border in Upper Assam. |
| 1/10/1998 | Geet Sethi retains National billiards title in Calcutta. |
| 9/30/1999 | India successfully test-fired its multi-target surface-to-air missile 'Akash'. |
| 10/17/1920 | Bhartiya Communist Party was formed at Tashkent with seven members including M.N. Roy, Birendra Chattopadhyay and Abani Mukherji. |
| 1/4/1931 | Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar, great orator, eminent journalist, fighter and one of the founders of Jamia Millia Islamia, died at London during the first Round Table Conference. He was closely associated to Mahatma Gandhi and took active part in Civil Disobedience Movement. |
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