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Historical Event on 8/12/1998
Uttarancha State plan meets with difficulty owing to differences on inclusion of Udham Singh Nagar and Hardwar district.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/12/1967 | Indira Gandhi became Prime Minister of India for the second time after winning the General Elections. |
| 10/6/1974 | Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, great freedom fighter, barrister, leader, politician, nationalist and member of the Lok Sabha, passed away. He resigned as the defence minister soon after the Chinese aggression. |
| 7/31/2000 | The Lok Sabha passes by voice vote a bill for creation of Chhattisgarh state. |
| 11/3/1986 | Dr. Indrachandra Shastri, versatile in Sanskrit and Pali, died. |
| 6/6/1997 | U.S. Congress honours Mother Teresa with a gold medal. |
| 10/17/1949 | The Constituent Assembly of India adopted Article 370 of the Constitution making special provisions for J&K. |
| 6/25/2000 | India lifts the Asia Cup sub-junior hockey championship in Kuala Lumpur. |
| 8/15/1872 | Sri Aurobindo Man Mohan Ghosh born in Calcutta. He was a renaissance yoga philosopher, freedom fighter and teacher. His 30-volume work discusses the 'superman', a metaphor for the divinely transformed individual soul. He withdrew from the world in 1910 and founded International Ashram in Pondicherry. |
| 6/6/1867 | Baba Kharak Singh, freedom fighter, was born at Sialkot. |
| 4/10/1760 | Gerard George Clifford, head of East-Indian Company, passed away at the age of 75. |
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