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Historical Event on 2/12/1990

The Berlin Wall is taken down February 12. Germany is reunited over the next year. Warsaw Pact is dissolved.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/24/1996Nanchil K. Manoharan, former DMK Finance Minister, expelled from the party.
1/3/1994Stalemate persists on the Kashmir issue during Indo-Pak talks that concluded in Islamabad.
1/26/1882Telephone line started working between Mumbai and Calcutta.
2/18/1665The Portuguese handover Mumbai island to England.
4/11/1942All-India Congress party rejects British offer of dominion status at New Delhi.
1/4/1932Mahatma Gandhi and other members of his All-India National Congress are back in jail again. After the collapse of the London conference, British authorities cracked down even harder on Gandhi and his followers, and the Mahatma urged Indians to increase their acts of civil disobedience. ""Wake up from sleep,"" Gandhi said as he ordered a boycott of British goods. ""Discard foreign cloth. Discard narcotics. Discard violence. Defy all orders calculated to crush the national spirit."" The government declared Gandhi's Congress an illegal organization. Under new laws, even peaceful picketing is illegal. The Congress party responded to the crackdown by recruiting more followers and striking more plants.
9/13/1991Churchil Alemao, former Goa CM, who was wanted under COFEPOSA, surrenders to the police in Panaji.
11/3/1945Temporary Octroi Mandal established.
4/6/1919Mahatma Gandhi declared an All India Strike against the Rollatt Act .This was the first strike.
10/4/1986Helicoptor Corporation of India established.