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Historical Event on 12/7/2000

A five-member ULFA group guns down 26 non-Assamese people, mostly Hindi and Bengali-speaking, at Sonpura near Arunachal Pradesh Border in Upper Assam.

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1/20/1684Treaty between Marathas and Portuguese.
1/27/2000K.R. Narayanan, President, opposes any tinkering with the Constitution.
4/28/1986Malayalam film `Chidambaram' directed by G. Aravindan wins best feature film award and Shyam Benegal bags the Best Director award for the Hindi film 'Trikal'.
12/21/1994The IAF return from peace keeping duties as part of the Indian contingent supporting UN operations in Somalia.
10/23/1934Gandhi resigns as leader of the All India Congress.
3/13/1989The first straw fired thermal power plant was laid in Jakhari village of Punjab.
1/8/1994Kamkothi Parmacharya Shri Chandrashekhar Saraswati, 68th Shankaracharya of Kanchi maat and Indian Saint, passed away at the the of 99.
5/11/1985Booby (Doll) trap bomb kills 86 people in India.
2/6/1998V. V. S. Laxman scores 301* for Hyderabad against Bihar.