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Historical Event on 8/12/1966
Mihir Sen swam Dadenelis.
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| 10/15/1997 | Arundhati Roy (37), Delhi-based author wins Britain's most prestigious literary award 'Booker Prize' for her novel "The God of Small Things' |
| 8/6/2000 | Sundararajan Kidambi becomes the new International Master in the Beil Open chess championship at Biel. |
| 9/6/1905 | Satyacharan Chaterjee, great Indian Geologist, was born. |
| 8/25/1959 | Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister, declares in New Delhi that India will defend Bhutan and Sikkim if attacked by China. |
| 2/8/1921 | Chamber prince of a Royal Proclamation was inaugurated. |
| 12/27/1976 | Yashpal, modern hindi litterateur, passed away. |
| 6/21/1930 | Five hundred were hurt as police charged Bombay mob. |
| 8/6/1925 | Surendra Nath Banerjee died. He was one of the founders of mordern India and proponent of autonomy within the British Commonwealth. He was President of Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad. |
| 1/3/1938 | Jaswant Singh, son of Thakur Sardar Singh, was born in Jasol, Distt. Barmer (Rajasthan). |
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