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Historical Event on 12/7/2000

A five-member ULFA group guns down 26 non-Assamese people, mostly Hindi and Bengali-speaking, at Sonpura near Arunachal Pradesh Border in Upper Assam.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/3/1987S.H. Vatsyayan passed away.
12/11/1687Madras' first presidency chartered with a Mayor s court as a Municipal Corporation.
6/13/1992Purushottam Diwakar Dhavle, famous journalist, passed away.
7/14/1994Veerappan, Sandalwood smuggler, declared 'proclaimed offender'.
5/22/1936Lord Brabourne laid the foundation stone of Brabourne Stadium in Bombay.
9/10/1976An Indian Airlines Boeing 737 aeroplane was hijacked for the second time and taken to Lahore, Pakistan.
8/13/1943Chintamanrao Deshmukh was first Indian to be appointed Governor of Reserve Bank.
4/7/1993Narsimha Rao,PM, arrives in Bangkok on a three-day visit to Thailand.
10/22/1962Bakhra-Nangal Dam, a multipurpose river valley project, was dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
12/23/1900Kalicharan Patnaik, famous Orria dramatist, poet and journalist, was born.