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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.

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6/25/1992BJP bags eleven seats in the biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha, Congress (I) secures seven.
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1/19/1997Air India triumphs in the National Women's Cricket championship in Calcutta.
3/14/1992NTR expels Upendra and six others from Telegu Desam Party.
2/24/1988Prithvi, India's first Indigenously designed surface-to-surface tactical missile of 250km, was successfully test fired from Sriharikota. India becomes the fifth country to develop such a missile.