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Historical Event on 12/1/2000
An armed intruder snipes at naval commando Satvir Singh at the official residence of the Navy Chief Admiral Sushil Kumar in the high- security Rajaji Marg area in New Delhi. The Navy sets up an enquiry board to probe the incident.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/1/1960 | Old Bombay province was divided between Maharashtra and Gujrat States. |
| 1/4/1924 | Vidyadhar Gokhle, editor, playwright and politician, was born. |
| 7/6/1939 | Manmohan Sood, cricketer (scored 0 & 3 in his only Test for India), was born in Lahore. |
| 1/1/1966 | Vimal Roy, film maker and producer, passed away. |
| 6/9/1752 | French army surrenders to the English in Trichinopoly, India. |
| 1/25/1971 | Himachal Pradesh becomes a full-fledged 18th Indian Union state. |
| 4/2/1877 | Narottam Morarjee, great social reformer and the architect of the modern Indian Shipping, was born at Porbandar. |
| 11/9/1841 | Edward VII, King of England (1901-10), was born. |
| 9/20/1942 | Kanak Lata Barua, a yound child who tried to host the national flag at Goupur police station in Assam with the help of 500 people, was shot by the police station incharge. |
| 2/6/1966 | Madurai Kamraj University established. |
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