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Historical Event on 8/12/2000
Neelam Jaswant Singh heaves the discus to a National mark (59.53m) in the Travancore National circuit athletics meet in Thiurvananthapuram.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/29/1961 | First cosmonaut of the world, Yuri Gagarin of Russia, came to India. |
| 8/12/1966 | Mihir Sen swam Dadenelis. |
| 4/24/1932 | 450 people seized by British for defying ban on Indian National Congress. |
| 5/27/1996 | A. B. Vajpayee, PM, seeks vote of confidence in his 12-day old govt. |
| 2/25/1897 | Dr. Amarnath Jha, educationist, was born. |
| 12/14/1864 | Jagat Narayan, law expert and educationist, was born. |
| 4/17/1996 | Indian Railways bars AIDS patients from using trains. |
| 5/21/1973 | Mohan Kumarmangalam, Central Minister, passed away in an air crash near Delhi. |
| 9/1/1988 | Fatte Singrao Gaekwad of Baroda, former Member of Parliament, passed away. |
| 6/8/1998 | Sani Abacha, 54, Nigerian President, died in Abuja of heart attack. |
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