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Historical Event on 2/12/2000
17 persons, including 12 police personnel, die as naxalites strike terror during the first phase of polling for the Bihar Assembly.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/16/1990 | GOI announces higher procurement/minimum support prices for all major kharif crops. |
| 7/10/1927 | Ganga Ram, great social reformer and founder of Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi, died in England while functioning as an active member of the Royal Commission on Agriculture. He was against dowry and child marriages and advocated widow re-marriage and also established institutions for vocational education and education for adults. |
| 12/15/1932 | Tirunellai Narayana Iyer Seshan, Chief Election Commissioner of India, was born. |
| 12/6/1956 | Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Babasaheb), great social worker, politician and writer of Indian constitution, passed away in Bombay. |
| 8/27/1958 | Metric system of weights and measures introduced. |
| 6/19/1991 | Sudhakar Rao Naik (Cong-I) sworn in as the Maharashtra CM. |
| 2/12/1996 | President S.D. Sharma in Kerala. |
| 12/9/1997 | Dr. K. Shivarama Karanth (95), doyen of Kannada literature and Jnanpith Award winner, died in Manipal. |
| 7/7/1763 | Britishers declared Mir Jafer as Nawab of Bengal. |
| 2/6/1931 | Motilal Gangadhar Nehru, revolutionary, founder of 'Swaraj Party', political leader and barrister, passed away at Lucknow. |
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