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Historical Event on 12/12/1999

R. K. Raghavan, CBI Director, said the agency will be ready for probe again in Priyadarshini Matto murder case.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/13/1977Jasawant Singh, famous physiologist, passed away.
6/27/1998Mr. Nikhil Chakravartty, journalist and chairman of Prasar Bharati, dies in New Delhi at 84.
6/24/1946Gandhiji meets Cabinet Mission.
9/7/1968Benipuri Sharma, famous Hindi novelist, died.
4/25/1993Indian Airlines plane hijacker shot dead by commandoes. All 141 persons rescued.
6/2/1908Sri Aurobindo, freedom fighter, was arrested in Manik Tala Bomb explosion case.
5/15/1992Harshad Mehta suspended.
2/11/1933First edition of weekly ""Harijan"" edited by Mahatma Gandhi was published from Pune in English and Hindi.
3/10/1998B. B. Lyngdoh of the United Democratic Party is sworn in Chief Minister of Meghalaya. The 12-day-old Congress(I) Ministry resigned following the failure of the party nominee to be elected as Speaker.
2/14/1929Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.