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Historical Event on 12/12/1930

Babu Genu sacrificed his life to stage the boycott of foreign goods.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/4/1984Air Chief Marshal L. M. Katre, PVSM, AVSM and Bar, became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 01/07/1985.
9/21/1962Major General I. J. Rikhye completed the task in accordance with the memorandum to UNSF, thus fulfilling the mandate of cessation of hostilities without any incident.
1/9/1995T.N. Seshan, chief election commissioner, asks Centre to put off annual budget in lieu of State assembly elections.
9/10/1918Muslim riots break out in Calcutta.
6/15/1907Narayan Ganesh Goray, freedom fighter and socialist, was born at Hindala (Maharashtra).
7/1/1961Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian women astronaut (STS 87), was born in Karnal.
4/1/1998Prabhat Kumar, a 1963 batch IAS officer, was appointed as the new Cabinet Secretary of India. He succeeded T.S.R. Subramaniam and held the office till 31-10-2000.
11/16/2000The Government to reduce equity holding in nationalised banks from 51 per cent to 33 per cent.
9/13/1928Shridhar Pathak, prominent Hindi writer, passed away.
1/3/1994Stalemate persists on the Kashmir issue during Indo-Pak talks that concluded in Islamabad.