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Historical Event on 12/8/1996

Sachin Tendulkar became the youngest cricketer to make 3000 runs in test cricket (at the age of 23 yrs and 228 days.)

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/23/1980Indira Gandhi gains power to imprison without trial.
10/2/1845First Shipping Company of India started.
6/12/2000The Government appointed S. K. Mahajan of Delhi High Court as the chairman of the one-man tribunal to adjudicate whether or not there was sufficient cause for declaring LTTE as unlawful.
7/1/1992Truck operators begin nation-wide strike to press for the abolition of toll tax and octroi.
4/3/1670Tanaji Malusure, right hand of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, passed away during the battle of Singhgad fort.
2/12/1996Former Union Minister Kalpanath Rai sent to Tihai jail for allegedly harbouring members of mafia don Dawood Ibrahim's gang.
6/23/1761Balaji Bajirao (Nanasaheb), third peshwa, died at Pune, after losing in the Third Battle of Panipat on 12 June.
12/4/1993Bahadur Prasad wins the second gold medal in 5000 m in Asian Track and Field meet in Manila.
5/7/1991Haryana beat Bombay in the cricket Ranji Trophy final by 2 runs.
11/30/1759Alamgir was murdered by his minister Imad-ul-Mulk.