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Historical Event on 12/12/1991

Violence in Karnataka over the centre's notification on Cauvery.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/15/1901Guru Hanuman was born at Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan. He was the pioneer and contributor of wrestling in India. He was bestowed with the Padamshri in 1983. His pupil Satpal and Kartar Singh won Gold Medals in Asian Games.
1/11/1986The Naval Dockyard Bombay celebrates its 250th Anniversary.
5/8/1997Mumbai High Court holds that Christian women can seek divorce on the sole ground of being subjected to cruelty and need not prove infedidelity on the part of their husbands or desertion.
7/27/1993Rao government defeats the no-confidence motion by 265-251 votes. Seven of the JD (A) vote with government as JD (A) and AIADMK decide to vote for no-confidence motion.
2/3/1928Simon Commission comes to India under Lord Irwin, after which serious rioting started on his arrival.
1/6/1976Baliram Bhagat elected Lok Sabha Speaker.
12/11/1968Indian born Har Govind Khorana receives the Nobel Price for medicine and physiology.
12/31/1738Lord Charles Cornvalis, Governor General of India (1786-1793), was born.
12/12/1992The world's largest monolithic granite statue of Lord Buddha, weighing 350 tonnes, placed on the 'Rock of Gibraltar' in the midst of Hussain Sagar lake in Hyderabad.
9/11/1950Sorabjee Harmasji Colah, cricketer (69 runs in India's first 2 tests 1932-33), passed away.