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Historical Event on 8/12/1997
Gulshan Kumar of Super Cassette Industries was shot dead by four unidentified persons in north-west Mumbai.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/6/1965 | Indian troops invade Pakistan. |
| 12/16/1994 | Pratap Singh Rane of Congress (I) takes oath of office. |
| 8/12/1868 | Frederick JNT Lord Chelmsford, Viceroy of British-India (1916-21), was born. |
| 6/9/1980 | M. G. Ramachandran's second AIADMK ministry takes office. |
| 3/25/1963 | Yagyawalk Bharadwaj, famous botany scientist, passed away. |
| 5/2/1922 | Kedarnath Modi, great Industrialist in Maharashtra, was born. |
| 5/24/1991 | The body of Rajiv Gandhi, India's assassinated former premier and son of the late Indira Gandhi, was cremated in New Delhi today. He was killed by a suicide bomber in the southern state of Tamil Nadu three days ago. Police suspect that Tamil rebels, fighting for independence in Sri Lanka, carried out the murder. Gandhi's death signaled the end of the Nehru dynasty's rule over India. His two children were too young to assume the leadership of this turbulent nation. There was pressure for Sonia Gandhi to succeed her husband, but she was Italian-born and refused. |
| 5/12/1949 | S Vijaya Laxmi Pandit, first woman foreign ambassador, was received in US. |
| 12/17/1830 | Simon Bolivar, great dynamic leader and social reformer, died. |
| 9/25/1914 | Devilal, former deputy Prime Minister of India and leader of farmers, was born. |
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