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Historical Event on 12/8/1911
Gaandhiji invites Gokhale to South Africa.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/3/1994 | Stalemate persists on the Kashmir issue during Indo-Pak talks that concluded in Islamabad. |
| 6/14/1947 | Congress Working Committee met at New Delhi to draft the resolution to be placed before All India Congress Committee on the acceptance of Mountbatten plan for the partition of India. |
| 5/6/1952 | Maria Montessori, pioneer in mordern education, who spent almost 10 years in India, died in Noordwijk aan Zee. The principles and techiques advocated by her are also applied to the education of handicapped children and adult education. |
| 7/3/1997 | Tamil actor Sivaji Ganesan gets 1996 Dada Saheb Phalke award for outstanding contribution to Indian cinema. |
| 1/24/1996 | H.K.L. Bhagat, senior Congress politician and former minister, arrested in connection with a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case. |
| 11/2/1984 | Violence following Indira Gandhi's assassination takes heavy toll. |
| 1/24/1951 | Nehru assails US. demand for UN to name Peking as aggressor in Korea, New Delhi. |
| 6/1/1959 | National Aeronautical Research Laboratory (NARL) set up under CSIR with temporary offices in New Delhi. Dr. P. Nilakantan is appointed NARL's first Director. |
| 2/19/1956 | Acharya Narendra Dev, the veteran freedom fighter, revolutionary, thinker and Chairman of PSP, passed away. |
| 7/4/1899 | Vishnuprasad Ranchhoddas Trivedi, famous critic in Gujrati, educationist and author, was born at Umreth, Gujarat . |
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