Philadelphia Indian Community - PhiladelphiaIndian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 12/8/2000

EC nod for Paswans's party to be known as Lok Janshakti Party.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/12/1959Krishnammachari Srikkanth, cricketer (big-hitting Indian opener 1981-92), was born in Madras.
8/9/1893Shivpujan Sahai, famous Hindi story writer and novelist, was born at Bihar in a middle class family.
3/29/1999A massive earthquake in the Garhwal region of Uttar Pradesh in the inner Himalayas claims 85 lives and more than 130 injured.
3/9/1974Guru Amudan Sharma, famous Manipuri dance master, passed away.
10/12/2000A Special Court sentences former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and his Home Minister Buta Singh to undergo three years rigorous imprisonment and pay a fine of Rs. 2 lakhs each in the 'JMM MPs' bribery case'.
7/11/1997Ten persons were killed as police opened fire on Dalit mob which attacked vehicles in protest against desecration of Ambedkar bust in Ramabai Ambedkar Nagar in north-east Mumbai.
2/14/1996Supreme Court orders CBI probe into a housing scam in which 8,700 govt. houses were allotted out-of-turn.
1/24/1950Dr. Rajendra Prasad became the first President of India.
1/8/1947Rajasthan University established at Jaipur.
8/26/1852Bombay Association was established.