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Historical Event on 10/12/1935
Shivraj Vishwanath Patil, former Speaker of Lok Sabha, was born
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/7/1991 | India successfully launches Prithvi-III, surface-to-air missile from Sriharikota. |
| 9/4/1927 | World fliers reach Karachi, India. |
| 6/3/1901 | Mahakavi 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. |
| 5/10/1985 | P. N. Bhagawati appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. |
| 12/1/1960 | Air Marshal Aspy Merwan Engineer DFC became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/07/1964. |
| 1/18/1992 | Ordinance cuts minimum poll campaign time to 14 days from 20 days. |
| 8/14/1968 | Week-long flood death toll reaches 1,000. |
| 12/16/1971 | Bangladesh was formed. President Yahya Khan of Pakistan changed his position dramatically and announced he would accept a ceasefire with India. After his forces in East Pakistan surrendered unconditionally, Yahya Khan vowed to keep fighting in the West against his political enemy. His reversal today undermines his administration, and there are growing indications he will step down as head of the military government. Yahya has already been criticized for his brutal repression of the Bengali separatist movement, which has renamed East Pakistan as Bangladesh. It appears that the separatists may actually benefit from the fighting, because India has managed to defeat most of Yahya's military forces in East Pakistan. |
| 5/12/1993 | Samsher Bahadur Singh, modern Hindi poet, passed away. |
| 7/18/1987 | Amitabh Bachhan resigns his Lok Sabha membership. |
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