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Historical Event on 2/12/1987

Mahamayaprasad Sinha, former Chief Minister of Bihar, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/6/1989Satwant Singh (24) and Kehar Singh (54) executed for the murder case of Smt. Indira Gandhi in Tihar Jail at New Delhi.
2/9/1993Congress (I), AIADMK alliance in Tamil Nadu breaks over Hindi imposition.
12/23/1919King's proclamation was made that the new reforms of Government of India offer some sort of self government.
11/14/1998Prominent Indian Government and private entities are targeted in the Clinton Administration Entities List. American Companies are barred from trading with the listed companies.
6/5/1974Smallpox epidemic in the country.
7/23/1933Jatindra Mohan Sengupta, great leader, lawyer, social worker, freedom fighter, nationalist and president of Bengal Swaraj Party, died at Ranchi. He was addresed by the people of Bengal as 'Deshapriya' (Beloved of the Country).
3/1/1996Supreme Court frees CBI from the control of PM Rao and directs that CBI would take no instruction or permission from or report to any authority personally interested in or likely to be affected by the investigation into the hawala case.
2/3/1983Prime Minister Indira Gandhi laid the foundation stone of Assam's new capital 'Pragjyotishpur'.
6/3/1901Mahakavi G. Sankara Kurup, Malayalam poet, was born. He was the first winner of the conveted Gyaanpeeth Award in 1965 for his poems "Odakkuzhal" in Malayalam.
11/16/1993Kashmir's 32-day-old Hazaratbal impasse ends with militants' surrender.