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Historical Event on 3/12/1917

Googie Withers, actress (1 of Our Aircraft is Missing), was born in Karachi, India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/1/1968Asia's biggest nuclear research lab started in New Delhi.
8/22/1922Alluri Seetaram Raju inspired and organised the tribals to wage a war against the British. Raju's army raided Chintapalli police station and there was regular warfare between him and the British forces.
10/19/1970First Indian-made MIG-21 handed over to the Air Force. Privy purses and privileges of former Indian rulers abolished.
12/16/1999Bill on Cyber law is introduced in the Lok Sabha.
5/26/1931One hundred miners were trapped beneath a blazing mine. It was thought that there were unlikely to be any survivors in Madras.
1/12/1993Ramakanth Rath, well-known Oriya poet, gets the Saraswathi Samman of Rs.3 lakh.
9/1/1965Pakistan launched Operation 'Grand Slam' in Chhamb sector aimed at Akhnoor in Jammu. Indians had battled Pakistanis in air and on ground at Kashmir.
9/27/2000The Union Cabinet decides to increase the number of Padma series of awards for excellence in different fields of activities from 60 to 100.
6/24/1991K. Karunakaran ministry assumes power in Kerala.
12/1/1991Stone laid for the Sanskrit University at Kaladi, the birthplace of Adi Sankara.