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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 |
| 10/25/1999 | US Energy Secretary Bill Richardson arrives. |
| 1/27/1984 | First unit of Atomic Energy Production Centre started at Kalpakkam. |
| 10/24/1890 | Shishirkumar Mitra, Physics expert, was born in Calcutta. |
| 6/7/1955 | Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian Prime Minister, visited U.S.S.R. |
| 5/28/1978 | The kiss comes to the Hindi screen in 'Love Sublime,' and is seen as a sign of what the govt. calls greater 'creative freedom,' after Indira Gandhi's authoritarian rule at Bombay. |
| 8/8/1912 | Prabhulal Bhatnagar, mathematician and Padmabhushan awardee, was born. |
| 12/1/1999 | Supreme Court quashes a pending inquiry initiated by the Election Commission against former Union Finance Minister Manmohan Singh. |
| 12/1/1999 | Sikh Guru Har Govindji, the sixth sikh guru, was born. He fashioned a military role for the Sikhs. |
| 5/12/1998 | Bill Clinton, US President, asks India to sign the CTBT. |
| 9/1/1962 | Shivaji University was established in Kolhapur. |
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