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Historical Event on 6/12/1960

783 Sikhs are arrested while demonstrating for an independent Sikh state in New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/20/1957Satyajit Ray's 'Pather Panchali' is declared the best film at the San Francisco Film Festival.
10/6/1969Bruna Coutinho, Indian Soccer(Football) player, was born in Calangute, Goa. He was recognised as Indian Player of the Year in 1996.
3/1/1987A Pakistani official quoted as saying, ""Pakistan has nuclear bomb capabilities at New Delhi"".
2/27/1996Manmohan Singh presents the vote-on-account as part of the interim budget in Lok Sabha for 1996-97 with a Rs. 5000 crore deficit.
10/9/1994Kamal Bose, great photographer, died.
1/9/1923Satyendranath Tagore, Bengali litterateur, passed away.
8/3/1886Maithili Sharan Gupta, first man of modern Hindi poetry and literature, writer, patriot and social worker, was born at Chirgaon village near Jhansi.
1/12/1949Tej Bahadur Saproo, liberal leader, passed away. He was a strong believer in constitution and not in revolutions.
1/12/1949Kritiwas, writer of Ramayana in Bengali language, was born.
7/28/1999Shiv Sena president Bal Thackeray is banned from voting and contesting in any election for six years from December 11, 1995 on the recommendations of the Election Commission.