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Historical Event on 12/8/1942

Hemant Shamsunder Kanitkar, cricketer (batted in two Tests India v WI 1974), was born in Amravati, Maharashtra.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/2/1996Controversial godman Chandraswami arrested and sent to high security Tihar jail on a day's judicial custody by a Delhi court for allegedly cheating NRI businessman Lakhubhai Pathak of $1 lakh in 1983.
4/17/1983Rohini (RS-D2), placed in orbit, was used for conducting some remote sensing technology studies using a landmark sensor payload. Launched by the second developmental launch of SLV-3.
5/2/1974700 union leaders arrested in a move to avert a rail strike in New Delhi.
1/11/1996Canadian PM Jean Chretien visits New Delhi.
9/22/1992Harshad Mehta released after 110 days in jail.
2/10/1846British forces under Hugh Gough defeated Sikhs in the Battle of Sobrahan in India.
9/8/1953Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, Premier of Kashmir, was shot at.
3/5/1931Mahatma Gandhi & British viceroy Lord Irwin sign a pact referred in Indian History as ""Gandhi-Irwin Pact"", after which the civic disobedience movement was taken back.
5/2/1998The Indian Army at Bandipura market captured 10.5 Kg Charas.
3/19/1998BJP-led coalition government is sworn in. Atal Behari Vajpayee became the second time Prime Minister of India.