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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 |
| 1/1/1980 | This decade was announced to be observed as the ""International Decade of Water & Sanitation"". |
| 7/27/1986 | The Supreme Court orders all-India test for medical seats. |
| 6/29/1997 | Anand wins Frankfurt chess classic '97 title in Germany. |
| 11/5/1977 | Indira Gandhi arrested and released unconditionally. The External Affairs Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee addresses the United Nations General Assembly in Hindi. |
| 8/1/1947 | Partition of India into India and Pakistan. Power transferred. Lord Mountbatten becomes Governor General of India and Muhammed Ali Jinnah, Governor General of Pakistan. |
| 11/3/1966 | Hurricane strikes Bengal, killing 1,000. |
| 11/13/1917 | Vasantrao Banduji Patil, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, was born. |
| 2/24/1988 | Prithvi, India's first Indigenously designed surface-to-surface tactical missile of 250km, was successfully test fired from Sriharikota. India becomes the fifth country to develop such a missile. |
| 9/1/1947 | Indian Standard Time was adopted. |
| 6/16/1920 | Hemant Chaudhary, famous singer and music director, was born. |
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