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Historical Event on 6/12/1999

Jalagam Vengal Rao, former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, died in Hyderabad.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/10/1979Rohini Technology Payload (RTP) intended for measuring in-flight performance of first experimental flight of SLV-3, the first Indian Space launch vehicle, failed to be placed in orbit.
1/27/1972V. S. Sarvate (Tatya Saheb), great revolutionary writer, passed away.
1/12/1924Gandhiji was operated on for appendicitis in Sassoon Hospital, Pune.
12/6/2000Bishop Vinod Peter, National Christian Council of India president and church of North India moderator, and Rajasthan CNI Bishop Gerald Andrews die in a car accident near Jodhpur in Rajasthan.
8/4/1929Kishor Kumar Ganguly, well known singer, was born at Khandava. He is also rememberd as a comic actor, director and musician.
1/5/1995PM gives valedictory address at the 8th World Tamil Conference in Madurai.
6/16/1859Anandram Dhekial Fukun, father of modern Assamia poetry and essay writer, passed away.
5/10/1981The first day and night cricket match of India was played at the flood-lit ground of the Wilson College Gymkhana (Bombay).
3/18/1948Eknath Dhondu Solkar, cricketer (India 1969-77, brilliant short-leg fielder), was born in Bombay. He is recipient of Arjun Award (1973).
9/29/2000India loses to Britain in the play off for the fifth and sixth places in the hockey match at the Sydney Olympics.