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Historical Event on 12/8/1922
Hari Prasad Sharma, cricket Test umpire for 3 tests from 1974-77, was born at Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/5/1992 | Centre scraps octroi in Union Territories. |
| 2/15/1936 | Nabin Chandra Bardoloi, freedom fighter, passed away. He was known for his patriotism and zeal for constructive work and was a forceful and emotional orator and debater and an eminent writer in Assamese litrature. He was also a musician and composed good number of patriotic poems and songs. |
| 5/7/2000 | Ranjit Singh Gill, one of the prime accused in the murder of Lalit Maken and his wife Geetanjali, who was the daughter of the late President Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, on July 31, 1985, was extradited to Delhi from the US to stand trial in the case. |
| 8/16/1965 | Indian troops cross Kashmir line, seizes two Pakistani outposts. |
| 1/9/1922 | Har Gobind Khurana, scientist of Biology, was born in India. He did his M.Sc from University of Punjab and, for higher education went to University of Liverpool. In 1959, he produced a chemical called ""Coenzymea"", which is essential for certain processes in the human body. He was awarded Nobel Prize for medicine in 1968 along with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Halley. |
| 8/3/1970 | Chonira Beliappa Muthamma, first women career diplomat, appointed ambassador to Hungary. |
| 4/14/1988 | Ashok Kumar, actor, recieved the Dada Saheb Phalke Award. |
| 8/17/1985 | Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India. |
| 7/31/1996 | Supreme Court exempts Rao from appearing in CMM court personally. |
| 1/4/1889 | Judge M. Patanjali Sastri, Chief Justice of India, was born. |
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