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Historical Event on 12/8/1911

Gaandhiji invites Gokhale to South Africa.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/10/1920Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was born at Hadagali in Karnataka. In 1945 he put forward the ""theory of estimation"" in statistics. His formulae and therorems, for instance the ""Cramer-Rao inequality"", ""The Fisher-Rao theorem"" and ""Rao-Black Wellistaion"" are now part of any standard textbook of statistics. For his significant contributions, Rao received the S. S. Bhatnagar Award, the Meghnad Saha Medal and the Guy medal.
5/27/1998Minoo Masani, 92, co-founder of the Swatantra Party, passed away in Mumbai after a brief illness.
11/10/1960B. N. Jha was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 08-03-1961
4/17/1996Indian Railways bars AIDS patients from using trains.
12/10/1993The residence of Mahatma Phule was declared a national monument.
1/8/1992Luggage rate of railway passengers hiked by 30 per cent.
8/6/1992A 30-member JPC constituted to probe the security scam.
5/1/1947Congress Working Committee accepts Partition in principle.
7/10/1924Johannes B van Heutsz, Governor General of Dutch Indies (1904-09), died at the age of 73.
3/25/1911L. D. Swamikannu publishes ""Manual of Indian Chronology"" in Bombay.