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Historical Event on 2/12/1987

Mahamayaprasad Sinha, former Chief Minister of Bihar, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/8/1999Farah Khan made it a double, adding the National ladies snooker title in Delhi.
3/17/1999An international seminar on UN Peacekeeping was co-jointly hosted by Ministry of External affairs and Ministry of Defence at New Delhi from 17 to 19 March 1999. The seminar was conducted by HQ Army Training Command, Shimla on behalf of the Indian Army. A total of 126 foreign delegates from 71 countries participated in the seminar.
5/10/1910Robert Koch, nobel laureate, died of an heart attack.
9/7/1955All India Council of Secondary Education set up by the Government.
2/24/1867Kedarnath Das, geat physiologist, was born.
7/14/1963Swami Shivanand Saraswati, religious leader, passed away.
12/14/1969Bishen Bedi takes 7-98 (career-best) v Australia at Calcutta.
8/11/1893First Hindu-Muslim riots in Maharashtra.
1/3/1997Congress President Sitaram Kesri elected leader of Congress Parliamentary Party, and Sharad Pawar appointed leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha.
1/3/1997Sultan Mehmud of Ghazni began his first real expedition to India by defeating the Hindu King Jaipal. He won Afghanisthan and Punjab in Peshawar battle. This was the first major Muslim conquest in India.