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Historical Event on 12/8/1999

The Opposition attacks Prime Minister Vajpayee for ""withholding'' information on ministers' resignation.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/29/1708British East India Company and New East India company merged.
9/8/1947There was little time to celebrate independence in India and Pakistan as large parts of the dominions were paralyzed with fear. Mobs ran wild as Muslims and Hindus battled to death and turned streets into rivers of blood.
9/8/1947Sheikh Mirza, chieftain of a small state of Ferghana, was born in Turkmenistan.
11/23/1908Durga Das, famous social reformer and journalist, was born.
1/4/1906Prince of Wales laid the foundation stone of Victoria Memorial Hall at Calcutta.
7/4/1991Fourth test of missile 'Prithvi'.
5/25/1999India blasts its way into the global satellite launch vehicle market with the PSLV-C2 deploying two foreign satellites besides the Indian remote sensing satellite, IRS-P4.
2/8/1921Chamber prince of a Royal Proclamation was inaugurated.
4/26/1946V. K. Ramaswamy, cricket test umpire for 10 tests from 1984-till date, was born at Hyderabad. He has become one of the first Indian Test umpires to be invited to umpire in a foreign country along with P. D. Reporter.
1/8/1996Maharashtra government clears Enron Dhabol power project at a tariff of Rs. 1.86 per unit.