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Historical Event on 12/12/1908

Gaandhiji released from Volksrust Gaol. Indian National Congress adopts resolution on South Africa, criticizing the harsh, humiliating and cruel treatment to British Indians in South Africa as injurious to English Empire.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/11/1975Oil struck in third Bombay High rig.
4/15/1996Shyam Benegal's film ""The Making of a Mahatma"" released in South Africa.
1/23/1954Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad declares that the State of Kashmir is a part of India.
12/20/1993Bangarappa expelled from Congress for 6 years.
6/6/1981The worst-ever railway accident took place in Bihar when a train plunged in Samastipur river.
11/17/199941 more ministers are inducted into the Ram Prakash Gupta Ministry in Uttar Pradesh taking the strength of the ministry to 91.
12/8/1922Hari Prasad Sharma, cricket Test umpire for 3 tests from 1974-77, was born at Delhi.
6/2/1965The second of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges R India).
12/26/1985Rajiv Gandhi and Pakistan President Zia-ul-Haq meet in Delhi and agree not to attack nuclear plants in each other's country.
2/24/1995A full Bench comprising Chief Justice M.M. Pareed Pillai, TV Ramakrishna and P. Shanmugam of the Kerala High Court quashed the words ""incestuous adultery"", ""adultery coupled with cruelty"" and ""adultery coupled with desertion"" contained in Section 10 of Indian (Christian) Divorce Act.