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Historical Event on 12/1/1997

At least 61 persons, including 22 women and 17 children, belonging to SC and extremely backward communities are gunned down by banned private army of feudal landlords, Ranbir Sena, at Bathe-Lakshmanpur village in Bihar's Jehanabad district.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/16/1908Bommi Narsingh Reddy, famous film story writer, was born.
11/3/1998The first geo-scientific data centre of the country is inaugurated at the Geological Survey of India.
2/18/1665The Portuguese handover Mumbai island to England.
11/17/1857Sir Colin Campbell, British Army Officer, managed to supress Indian Mutiny sepoys at Lucknow.
5/24/1875Sir Sayed Ahmed Khan established Mohmmad Anglo Oriental School which was renamed in 1920 as 'Aligarh Muslim University'.
9/6/1993CPI (M) wrests Congress (I) bastion of Chowringhee in the by-elections to the WB Assembly; Durgapur and Kurseong also won by CPI (M).
4/6/1942During the second world war, for the first time Japanese air-bombers attacked India, and the mainland took place at Visakhapatnam.
1/20/1952Vasant Patankar, famous Marathi writer, was born.
6/17/1995Motilal Vohra, UP Governor, sets agenda for a two-day special session of the UP Assembly asking the speaker to take up a motion against self first.
10/27/1997UP ministry expanded by inducting 70 new members thus taking the total number of a record 93 members.