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Historical Event on 12/11/1994

H.D. Deve Gowda, Janata Dal leader, assumes office as CM of Karnataka.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/22/198219 persons were killed and 25 injured when an Air India Boeing 707 from Singapore via Madras crashed at Bombay.
8/12/1979Heavy rains resulted in bursting of a dam thus causing floods in Moorvi and Lilapur in Gujarat, killing over 1,335 people.
7/1/1985Air Chief Marshal L M Katre, PVSM, AVSM and Bar, died in office.
1/6/1989Satwant Singh (24) and Kehar Singh (54) executed for the murder case of Smt. Indira Gandhi in Tihar Jail at New Delhi.
3/15/1831First Marathi Almanac (Panchang) started by Ganpat Krishnaji.
12/4/1829Britain abolished ""sati"" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre)
10/31/1999Efforts to restore rail and telecom links on a war footing.
3/24/2000Rupali Repale of India becomes the first woman and the youngest to swim the Robben Island channel-both ways.
8/2/1935The British pass Govt. of India Act, separating Burma, Aden from India.
7/25/1982Dr. Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1913-1996) retired from the post of sixth President.