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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 |
| 1/24/1924 | Karpoori Thakur ""Jan Nayak"", freedom fighter, teacher and national president of Samyukta Socialist Party, was born in village Samastipur, District Bihar. |
| 12/14/1955 | Henry Heras, famous artist and an active member of the Indian Historical Records Commission, died in Bombay. |
| 11/7/1936 | Chandrakant Devtale, famous Hindi poet, was born. |
| 3/5/1993 | The government de-reserves the mining industry throwing it open to private sector as well as to foreign investment. |
| 7/4/1997 | Mumbai High Court directs BMC to reinstate G.R. Khairnar, the iconoclastic Dy. Municipal Commissioner suspended in `94 and removed from service in October 1996. |
| 6/18/1997 | E.K. Nayanar, Kerala Chief Minister, meets Pope John Paul II in Vatican. |
| 4/15/1962 | S. S. Khera was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 18-11-1964. |
| 12/13/1984 | The death toll in a toxic gas leak from an insecticide plant in Bhopal, India, now is estimated at 2,100, and tens of thousands of residents fled the city today after it was announced that the Union Carbide plant would be started up again to neutralize the effect. |
| 10/27/1997 | UP ministry expanded by inducting 70 new members thus taking the total number of a record 93 members. |
| 11/15/1988 | Dalai Lama agreed for less then independent country to save the cultural heritage of Tibet. |
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