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Historical Event on 12/8/1875

Tej Bahadur Sapru, great leader, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/6/1985Bombay beat Delhi by 90 runs to win the Ranji Trophy final.
2/7/2000Kamaluddin Ahmed, former APCC(I) president and four times Congress MP, joins the BJP.
5/3/1936Engelbert Humperdinck [Arnold George Dorsey], famous singer, was born in Madras, India.
7/3/1985Air Chief Marshal D A La Fontaine PVSM, AVSM, VM., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/July/1988.
11/15/1982S. N. Katkar, famous poet and former editor of 'Yugvani', died.
9/18/1967English was adopted the official language of Nagaland .
9/25/1984Indian Army withdraws from the Golden Temple; repair of Akal Takht complete.
8/9/1892Shri Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan, prolific author and first librarian of the University of Madras, was born.
6/10/1946Gandhiji refused to enthuse over allied victory as it was not a ""victory of truth over false-hood"".
3/17/19674th Parliament (Lok Sabha) was formed.