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Historical Event on 12/12/1958

Fergie Gupte takes 9-102 with leggies vs West Indies at Kanpur.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/27/1972V. S. Sarvate (Tatya Saheb), great revolutionary writer, passed away.
10/10/1964Gurudutt, famous film actor, died
12/24/1999Indian Airlines Kathmandu-Delhi Airbus 300 with 186 people on board hijacked shortly after take-off.
7/22/1978Indira Gandhi charged with criminal misconduct during 1977 campaign.
2/13/1713Sultan Jahandar Shah was strangled to death. Farrukhsiyar captured the throne of Delhi from Jahandar Shah with the assistance of two Sayyid brothers.
9/21/1862Venkat Apparao Gurjad, famous Telegu poet, playwright, story writer, critic and social reformer, was born.
11/9/1967Bhartiya Kranti Dal, a new political party founded.
6/16/1993Harshad Mehta accuses PM of taking Rs. 1 crore payoff from him in November 1991; Rao terms it malicious and unfounded.
6/9/1992Rajesh Khanna (Congress-I) defeats Shatrughan Sinha to wrest the New Delhi Lok Sabha seat from the BJP.
9/18/2000Prasar Bharati issues a notification making it compulsory for cable operators to telecast regional channels of Doordarshan on prime band, in addition to DD-1 and DD-2, in their respective states.