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Historical Event on 2/12/1997

Standard Bank tri-series final between India and South Africa abandoned due to rain.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/21/1994JKLF leader Mohammed Yasim Malik agrees to eschew violence provided the Centre guarantees a dialogue without pre-conditions.
12/13/1999Dr. V. Kurien gets the Paulos Mar Gregorius Award 1999.
1/18/1942Gandhiji restarts 'Harijan' and allied weeklies.
11/16/1958India and U.S.S.R. sign trade agreement to exchange Soviet industrial and agricultural equipment for farm commodities at Moscow.
12/25/1999An Indian Airlines aircraft with 187 passengers on board is hijacked. The plane was going from Katmandu to New Delhi. It lands near Abu Dhabi after several hops.
5/19/2000A `civil coup' in Fiji ousts the first ethnic Indian Prime Minister Mahendra Pal Choudhary. President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara proclaims a state of emergency.
2/22/1993Sudhakarrao Naik, Mahrashtra CM, resigns in the wake of party dissidence.
12/29/1844W.C. Bonerjee, first President of the Indian National Congress, was born in Kidderpore, Calcutta.
8/15/1993Five more Doordarshan channels launched.
1/29/1953Indian National Academy of Dance, Drama and Music inaugurated.