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Historical Event on 8/12/1979
Heavy rains resulted in bursting of a dam thus causing floods in Moorvi and Lilapur in Gujarat, killing over 1,335 people.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/1/1997 | Prime Minister inaugurated India's first Science City in Calcutta. |
| 9/29/1977 | India and Bangladesh signed settlement for distributing Ganga river water. |
| 12/15/1965 | Maharastra State Agriculture Industry Development Corporation established. |
| 7/23/1993 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2B), second satellite in the INSAT-2 series, was launched. This is more operational multi-purpose communication and enhanced meteorology satellite. It is still in service. It was aunched by European Ariane launch vehicle. |
| 4/4/1990 | Lata Mangeshkar wins 1989 Dada Saheb Phalke award. |
| 2/3/1984 | Ravindra Mhatre, great Indian diplomat who was kidnapped in England, was murdered. |
| 7/31/1880 | Nawab Rai\Dhanpat Rai, 'Prem Chand', great litterateur, writer, editor, journalist and headmaster, was born at Lamahi village near Varanasi, UP. |
| 5/19/1975 | Farm truck packed with wedding party run over by a train, killing 66 in truck, at 40 miles south of Pune. |
| 1/25/1917 | Captain P.K. Sahgal, freedom fighter who attended Indian Military Academy course at Dehradun, was born at Hoshiarpur. |
| 10/18/1993 | Mandakini Athvale, first child actor of Indian film industry, died. |
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