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Historical Event on 12/8/1922

Hari Prasad Sharma, cricket Test umpire for 3 tests from 1974-77, was born at Delhi.

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10/14/1910Further unrest took place in Lhasa, Tibet, following the arrest of Dalai Lama's agent by the Chinese on the Chinese frontier with India.
12/20/1876Bankinchrandra Chattopadhyay wrote ""Vande Mataram"".
5/2/1769Sir John Malcom, former Governor of Mumbai and historian, was born.
9/7/1931The Second Round Table conference began in London and lasted till 1st December, 1931. Congress was solely represented by Gandhi and Muslim League by Sir Allama Iqbal and Quaid-e-Azam. Two committees were set up to carry out the work of the conference on Federal Structure and Minorities. Gandhi was the member of both the committees. He claimed that being the sole representative of the Congress, he represented the whole of India. Quaid-e-Azam replied that Muslims are a separate nation. Sir Shafi demanded that the 14 points of Quaid-e-Azam be incorporated in the future constitution.
1/1/1926Mohammad Abdul Hye, educationist, was born at Alitangani, (Nowgong).
5/9/1996J. Jayalalitha, Tamil Nadu CM, resigns.
8/21/2000Mahatma Gandhi's daughter-in-law Mrs. Nirmala Gandhi dies in Wardha. She was 91.
4/15/1890Gaganvihari Lalubhai Mehta, famous Indian economist, politician and journalist, was born.
3/28/1914Komagata Maru sailed from Hong Kong to Vancouver with 351 Sikhs and 21 Punjabi Muslim youths under the captaincy of Sardar Gurjeet Singh as a part of 'Ghadar' Movement.