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Historical Event on 12/8/1930

British Gen. Norman Simpson shot at desk by Indian nationalists.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/21/1658Aurangzeb celebrated his being the emperor of Mugal Empire at Delhi. He was informally enthroned.
3/23/1947Lord Mountbatten was sent as a Viceroy to India who was designated to free India.
2/27/1992Narasimha Rao elected Congress (I) President in the party poll held after a gap of 20 years.
3/24/1977Morarji Desai elected leader of Janata Party and sworn in as the Prime Minister of India at New Delhi. Later he formed his cabinet. He was in the office of Prime Minister till July 28, 1979. This was first non-Congress Government in India.
10/2/1957All India Scheduled Caste Federation formally dissolved and a new political party 'Republican Party of India' was formed.
7/20/1993British parliament ratifies the Indo-British extradition treaty.
5/6/2000Benoy Krishna Chowdhury (89), veteran freedom fighter and prominent CPI(M) leader, died at a Government Hospital in Calcutta.
7/21/1911Umashankar Jethalal Joshi, famous Gujarati poet, Hindi writer and educationist, was born at Bamna in Gujarat.
9/2/1992Delhi High Court indicts CBI in Bofors case; FIR and letters rogatory quashed.
3/12/1992The four-member break-away group of Telugu Desam recognised by Lok Sabha speaker.