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Historical Event on 12/12/1999

R. K. Raghavan, CBI Director, said the agency will be ready for probe again in Priyadarshini Matto murder case.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/15/1947Lord Louis Mountbatten took charge as the first British Governor General of Indian Union and occupied this office till June 20, 1948.
7/17/1893Lokmanya Tilak was arrested for 18 months.
9/14/1868Swami Virjanand, Sanskrit grammar litterateur and master, passed away at the age of 90.
4/18/1917Gandhi saw one of his testing grounds of Satyagraha in Champaran. He defied section 144 of Criminal Act.
5/17/1775Marathas were badly mauled in the battle of Arras by Col. Keating in the first Anglo - Maratha war.
5/29/1953Mount Everest conquered by Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay.
9/16/1916D. R. Samant, journalist and social reformer, was born at Ratnagiri, Maharashtra.
12/28/1998India and Sri Lanka sign an agreement to establish a bilateral free trade area, after the visiting Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister A. B. Vajpayee, have sorted out the differences that held up the negotiations on it in the past.
4/1/1976Television was separated from radio, and Doordarshan Corporation was established.
5/24/1956Gautam Buddha's 2500th birth anniversary was celebrated.