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Historical Event on 12/8/1999

Brij Bhupinder Singh alias Lalli, former Punjab Minister, was arrested on charges of fraud and disappropriation of public funds.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/24/1992Karnataka High Court stays government order granting permission to open nine private engineering colleges.
10/1/1941No. 3 Squadron, similarly Audax-equipped, was raised at Peshawar.
11/7/1936Chandrakant Devtale, famous Hindi poet, was born.
12/10/1998Prof. Amartya Sen receives the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics.
9/30/1989INS Shalki, India's first indigenously built submarine, launched in Bombay.
9/22/1999Former Test all-rounder Chandu Borde was re-appointed chairman of National Selection Committee on Day two of the BCCI AGM in Jaipur.
9/14/1997Fire and explosions devastate terminals and storage tanks at Visakh Refinery of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation. Toll put at 51.
9/8/1972Vijay Singh Chauhan sets record for decathlon by 7378/7306 points at Munich.
12/10/1870Jadhunath Sarkar, history researcher, was born.
7/6/1944Mahatama Gandhi was for the first time addressed as 'Father of Nation'.