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Historical Event on 8/12/1973
Dayanand Balkrishna Bandodkar, first Chief Minister of Goa, Daman and Diu, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/19/1888 | Namakkal Kavignar, Gandhian poet and painter, was born at Mohanur in Salem. |
| 11/21/1993 | R.F. Botha, Foreign Minister, moots a grouping of Indian Ocean countries. |
| 1/5/1893 | Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), universalist Hindu, great saint, social reformer, writer and litterateur was born at Gorakhpur. He was the renaissance founder of Self Realization Fellowship (1925) in US, author of famed 'Autobiography of a Yogi' (1946), popular book globalizing India's spiritual traditions. |
| 10/31/2000 | The Income Tax Department 'indicts' five cricketers - Kapil Dev, Ajay Jadeja, Manoj Prabhakar, Nikhil Chopra and Ajay Sharma - for tax evasion and concealment of income earned through ""dubious sources' |
| 11/25/1948 | National Cadet Corps was first established. |
| 9/17/1799 | Parshuram Bhau Patwardhan, an able leader and diplomat of Madhavrao Peshwa kingdom, passed away. |
| 12/28/1905 | Sir Dr. Gajapatairaj Vijaya Ananda, the Maharajkumar of Vizianagram, ""Vizzy"", cricketer and Indian Right Handed Batsman, was born at Vizianagar. He was honoured with Padma Bhushan in 1958. |
| 12/31/1802 | Peshwa Baji Rao-II, after being defeated by Yashwant Rao Holkar, signed the treaty of Subsidiary Allowance and accepted security of British Government. |
| 11/1/1967 | Old Punjab, after first partition in 1947, was again seperated into two new states of Punjab and Haryana on linguistic basis, and Chandigarh became a Union Territory. |
| 10/17/1932 | Rani Gaidinliu, freedom fighter, social reformer and political leader, was captured by the British army. |
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