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Historical Event on 8/12/1905
Japan, Britain reach an accord determining spheres of influence in Far East; India to remain with the British.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/2/1993 | CEC Seshan postpones all elections including by-elections to December in protest against the government's attempt to subjugate the Commission. |
| 8/18/1891 | Jain Muni Mishrimalji, poet, social reformer and orator, was born at Pali, Rajasthan. |
| 8/19/1907 | Acharya Hajariprasad Dwivedi was born. |
| 8/27/1781 | Haider Ali and the Britishers fought the battle of Pallilore. |
| 10/17/1979 | Supreme Court stays the execution of all death sentences. |
| 2/6/1827 | Shyam Shastri, musician and a great artist of India, passed away at the age of 65 years. |
| 12/25/1879 | Sadhu T.L. Vaswani (1879-1966), altruistic Sindhi poet and servant of God, who found several Hindu missions in India and seven Mira Educational Institutions in his lifetime, was born. |
| 2/14/1901 | Sambamurty Pichhu, music teacher, was born. |
| 11/29/1988 | Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support. |
| 10/22/1997 | Indian veterans take winning 3-0 lead against Pakistan in the five-match cricket series. |
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