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Historical Event on 12/8/1911

Gaandhiji invites Gokhale to South Africa.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/2/1952India won first cricket Test Match at Chepauk Stadium, Madras.
11/11/1973India's first International Philatelic Exihibition started in New Delhi.
11/11/1973Saint Narhari Sonar, a poet-saint of the Varkari smanaj and goldsmith (sonar) from Maharashtra had taken Samadhi. His transition from a staunch Shaiva to a Vithoba-worshipping Varkari, after a miracle that makes him realize that Vithoba and Shiva are one and the same.
4/23/1987Supreme Court in a judgement confers Hindu widows absolute ownership of property under Hindu Succession Act 1956.
3/1/1993India develops Phased Array Radars critical for its ""Akash"" surface-to-air missile and launches its indigenous main battle tank 'Arjun'.
1/29/1994Air India and Indian Airlines converted into companies.
1/6/1999Shiv Sena activists dug up the Kotla pitch in Delhi with a view to prevent the Indo-Pakistan first Test which was to commence from Jan. 28.
2/14/199813 bomb blasts take place in Coimbatore an hour before the BJP president Advani was to address a campaign meeting; 52 people killed.
10/11/1991Resident Editor of Nagpur Times Ramnarayan Dube assassinated.
6/18/1879Venketeshwar Bachhali, famous physics scientist, was born.