Indianapolis Indian Community - IndianaIndian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 8/12/2000

Neelam Jaswant Singh heaves the discus to a National mark (59.53m) in the Travancore National circuit athletics meet in Thiurvananthapuram.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/15/1992Union Carbide decides to sell its holdings in India to raise upto $ 17 million for a hospital in Bhopal.
3/5/1997Pravin Thipsay wins the United Insurance GM chess tournament in Dhaka.
10/26/1999The Government rejected the demand that Rajiv Gandhi's name be deleted from the chargesheet in the Bofors case.
9/4/1984Air Chief Marshal L. M. Katre, PVSM, AVSM and Bar, became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 01/07/1985.
12/17/1998P. M. Sayeed of the Congress(I) was unanimously elected Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
5/30/1919Rabindranath Tagore returned back the honour as a protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
11/9/1990JD expels Gujarat CM Chimanbhai Patel and UP CM Mulayam Singh Yadav from Legislative wings and primary membership of the party.
9/22/1789Office of Postmaster General is created under the Treasury Department.
7/29/1979Choudhary Charan Singh was sworn in as the fifth Prime Minister of India heading the Janata (S)-Congress coalition. He held this office till January 14, 1980. Jagjivan Ram became the leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha.
11/19/2000The Government announces a partial rollback in the price of kerosene by Re. 1 a litre and LPG by Rs. 10 a cylinder in deference to the demands by allies led by the Trinamool Congress.