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Historical Event on 12/8/1994
At 1730 hrs, a rocket propelled grenade fired by Somalia militia during inter clan fighting exploded on the roof of the barrack which housed IAF officers. In the explosion, two officers and an airman were injured.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/22/1812 | Dalhousie, governor general of India, was born. |
| 5/1/1996 | International women's master Anupama Gokhale of Bharat Petroleum becomes the first woman in the history of Indian chess to win an all-India level international rating tournament with her bagging the Mohammed Hassan memorial title. |
| 5/30/1955 | Narayan Malhar Joshi, father of Indian Worker's Movement, passed away. |
| 6/9/1967 | Narayan Shripad Rajhans, alias Bal Gandharva, went into a coma in Bombay and never regained his consciousness. |
| 6/9/1967 | Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)-I, Portuguese navigator, arrived in India. He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to Calicut, Kerala with three vessels and was the first Westerner to sail to India from Europe. |
| 7/31/1914 | Amar Nath Chawla, politician, was born at Taunggri, (Burma). |
| 11/1/1961 | First passenger Plane flight AVRO HS748. |
| 1/9/1996 | PM unveils India's state-of-the-art Main Battle Rank (MBT) `Arjun' at a New Delhi function. |
| 2/8/1994 | Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432. |
| 1/18/1997 | SC says telephone tapping is violation of fundamental rights but permits it by government in special circumstances. |
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