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Historical Event on 8/12/1988

S. R. Bommai elected Karnataka CM.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/13/1972Balraj Sahani, famous film actor, passed away.
10/30/1976Elections to the lower house of the Indian Parliament suspended again until early 1978.
7/1/1992Central Railway started special train for ladies in Mumbai.
3/29/1914Sudhir Gupta, famous Hindi poet and educationist, was born in Kalasgram, Bangladesh.
12/16/1999Likhiram Karve, Madhya Pradesh's Minister for Transport, is hacked to death by naxalites.
3/5/1919M.L. Kapoor, great industrialist, was born at Lahore.
1/4/1940Shrikant Sinkar, famous Marathi novelist, was born.
11/22/1999A.B.Vajpayee, Prime Minister, expands cabinet as four more ministers join the ministry including Arun Shourie.
1/10/1993Advani, Joshi released on court orders.
3/24/1987First developmental launch of new generation rocket ASLV 'Stretched Rohini Satellite Series' (SROSS-1). This carried payload for launch vehicle performance monitoring and for gamma ray astronomy. This plunged within two minutes and 40 seconds of its launching.