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Historical Event on 11/12/1984
Rajiv Gandhi elected Congress (I) President.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/6/1998 | SriKrishna Commission report was tabled by the Maharashtra government. It was rejected by the ruling alliance whom it heavily indicted. |
| 6/6/2000 | Abhijit Kunte wins the National `A' chess championship at Mumbai. |
| 2/18/1975 | Yogesh Shyam, soccer(Football) player, was born. |
| 11/18/1974 | Telex Service started between India and Pakistan. |
| 10/11/1968 | Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj passed away. (Samadhee) |
| 12/27/1797 | Mirza Ghalib, great urdu poet and writer, was born at Agra. |
| 12/11/1971 | The elite para-commandos and parachute battalions -India's 'Red Devils', as they are affectionately called, have an unsurpassed ethos and elan of their own. 2 Para Battalion executed a superb airborne assault operation at Tangail in East Pakistan, which was the first of its kind in the subcontinent. |
| 10/9/1994 | Kamal Bose, great photographer, died. |
| 4/14/1944 | Blast in ammunition loaded on 1,318 tonned freighter 'S. S. Fort Stikine' which was anchored in Victoria Dock at Bombay. The explosion killed 1376 people, wrecking 27 ships and destroying 40,000 tons of food. |
| 9/29/2000 | The Government raises the prices of petroleum products across- the-board while cutting import and excise duties on crude oil, diesel and motor spirit (petrol). |
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