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Historical Event on 12/12/1908

Gaandhiji released from Volksrust Gaol. Indian National Congress adopts resolution on South Africa, criticizing the harsh, humiliating and cruel treatment to British Indians in South Africa as injurious to English Empire.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/31/1988Air Chief Marshal D A La Fontaine PVSM, AVSM, VM. retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command.
9/19/2000Karnam Malleswari adds a glorious chapter to Indian sports history at the Sydney International Convention Centre by becoming the first woman to gain an Olympic medal.
4/3/1857Queen Victoria declared as Queen of India also.
6/20/1957Govindrao Burhanpurkar, famous harmonium player, died.
2/19/1812Congregational missionaries Adoniram Judson, 23, and his wife Ann, 22, first sailed from New England to Calcutta. (Judson eventually concentrated his labors in Burma).
7/20/1990GOI notifies restrictions on liberal import policy announced earlier. The restrictions will cut the import bill by about Rs. 1000 crore.
4/3/1932Boycott of British goods was so widespread that 70\% of cotton products were now thought to have come from Japan.
2/26/1857First Indian Revolution called the Sepoy Mutiny ends in a few months with the fall of Delhi and Lucknow which broke out in Berhampore by the 19th Bengal Infantry.
3/29/1989Central Institute of Fisheries Education gets the distinction of becoming the first Fisheries University in India.
11/1/2000T. R. Prasad was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He holds this office till date.