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Historical Event on 12/8/1980
Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev visits New Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/8/1997 | Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, Assam Chief Minister, has a narrow escape as a powerful remote-controlled bomb exploded in Maligaon area of Guwahati. |
| 3/3/1982 | Firaq Gorakhpuri ""Raghupati Sahay"", great writer, nationalist and who revolutionised Urdu poetry, died. |
| 7/1/1991 | Rupee devalued by 8.5\%. |
| 11/7/2000 | The BJP firebrand Uma Bharti makes a triumphant return to the Union Ministry as Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs and Arun Jaitley gets elevated as Cabinet Minister in a mini expansion. Maj.Gen. (Retd) B. C. Khanduri takes oath as Minister of State for Transport and Highways. |
| 4/3/1926 | Muslim-Hindu riots destroy temples, killing 12, wounding 100 in Calcutta. |
| 1/15/1934 | Nearly 20,000 lives were claimed in a tremendous earthquake measured 8.4 on the Ricther Scale, in Bihar and parts of Nepal. Munger City was completely destroyed. |
| 12/6/1997 | Nine persons killed and over 60 injured in bomb blasts in three trains which left Chennai. Blasts occurred in Tiruchi, Erode (Tamil Nadu) and Trissur in Kerala. |
| 2/27/1993 | Rupee made fully convertible in Man Mohan Singh's third successive budget. |
| 10/15/1932 | First Indian commercial airliner service 'Tata Sons Ltd' started. (Tata Airlines) |
| 7/31/1914 | Amar Nath Chawla, politician, was born at Taunggri, (Burma). |
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