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Historical Event on 6/12/2000

The 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.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/21/1998Romesh Bhandari, U.P. Governor, dismisses the Kalyan Singh Government and inducts an 18-member ministry headed by Jagadambika Pal of the Loktantrik Congress Party. BJP moves the Allahabad High Court. BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate, A. B. Vajpayee, goes on a ""fast-unto-death"".
5/9/1996LDF wins 80 sets and UDF 59 in Kerala elections .
12/19/1917Ashoknath Banerjee, Governor of Karnataka, was born.
8/20/1995India and China decide to withdraw four army battalions from Chu Sumdurong valley near the Line of Actual Control.
1/29/1780Hicky's Bengal Gazette, the first news paper in India, was published in English in Calcutta .
12/28/1971Nanak Singh, famous novelist and poet, died at Preet Nagar.
12/6/199813th Asian Games inaugurated at Bangkok.
5/2/1908Police in Calcutta discover a cache of explosives for use in alleged anarchist plot.
5/5/1972Loknathan P. S., great economist, passed away.
6/14/1997India expresses regret over ""inadvertent intrusion"" of IAF helicopter into Bangladesh territory.