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Historical Event on 12/8/1999
Dr. Shankar K. Pal of the Indian Statistical Institute selected for the G.D. Birla Award for 1999.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/11/1968 | Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj passed away. (Samadhee) |
| 6/19/1995 | In an unprecedented move, UP Speaker Dhani Ram Verma adjourns the two-day special session called to prove Mayavati Government's majority in the House. Later, the House gathers, rejects the sine die adjournment and unanimously elects B.R. Verma (BSP) as new presiding officer to conduct the business of the House. |
| 12/26/1989 | India debars Bofors from future contracts until they come out clean. |
| 7/14/1656 | Guru Har Kishan, the eight Sikh, was born. |
| 1/10/1967 | Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, laid the foundation stone of Women's University, Karnataka, founded to pay gratitude to Rani Chainema of Kitur. |
| 7/17/2000 | 55 persons die as a Boeing 737 of Alliance Air from Calcutta to Delhi via Patna and Lucknow crashes at Gardanibagh, one km from the runway at the Patna airport. |
| 11/3/1997 | American Consulate General in Chennai starts issuing visitor's visa with 10-year validity. |
| 4/21/1659 | Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj meet Saint Samarth Ramdas Swami. |
| 12/16/1770 | Ludwig Van Beethoven, greatest musician, poet and innovator, was born. |
| 5/18/1933 | Gandhiji commences at noon 21 days' fast for self-purification; released unconditionally at 9 p.m. |
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