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Historical Event on 8/12/1992
72 militants surrendered before Punjab CM Beant Singh.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/31/1958 | First Earth Satellite Explorer I was launched from Cape Kennedy. |
| 9/21/1966 | Mihir Sen swam the Bay of Persia. |
| 4/3/1912 | M. Varadarajan, educationist and author, was born at Tirupattur. |
| 8/1/2000 | The Lok Sabha adopts Uttar Pradesh State Reorganisation Bill paving the way for the creation of Uttaranchal the 27th State. |
| 9/20/1998 | India lost the fifth and final match of the Sahara Cup by five wickets. Pakistan won the series 4-1 at Toronto. |
| 8/30/1983 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1B) launched. This was also a multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite, which served for more than its design life of seven years. It was launched by a US Space Shuttle. |
| 1/30/1948 | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the spiritual leader of Indian independence, was shot and killed by a Hindu extremist. The 78-year-old Gandhi was shot at point-blank range as he was walking through a garden to a pergola, where he was to deliver his daily prayer meeting. |
| 8/18/1956 | Sandeep Madhusudan Patil, great Indian batsman, was born in Bombay. |
| 12/29/1927 | Hakim Ajmal Khan, freedom fighter, litterateur and a true patriot, died. |
| 6/17/1839 | Lord William Bentik, governor general of India, was born. |
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