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Historical Event on 12/12/1930

Babu Genu sacrificed his life to stage the boycott of foreign goods.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/5/1979First Naval Museum of India established in Bombay.
6/2/1991Dinesh Goswami, former Law Minister, passed away in a road accident in Assam.
9/29/2000A special court convicted former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and his then cabinet colleague Buta Singh in the JMM MPs' bribery case. Nine others got benefit of doubt.
8/1/1939Bombay begins Prohibition, first since U.S. law was repealed.
1/29/1968Laxmidas Purshottamdas Jai, one Test for India, died.
2/3/1921The Evens Report on Indian Cinema 1921' was tabled before the Govt. on February 3.
9/18/1972Government of India announces increase of minimum bonus to workers from 4\% to 8.33\%.
4/30/1947The entire nation is stirred by religious strife.
12/1/1931The Second Round Table conference that began in London ended. Congress was solely represented by Gandhi and Muslim League by Sir Allama Iqbal and Quaid-e-Azam, etc. Two committees were setup to carry out the work of the conference on Federal Structure and Minorities. Gandhi was the member of both committees. He claimed that being the sole representative of the Congress, he represented the whole of India. Quaid-e-Azam replied that Muslims are a separate nation. Sir Shafi demanded that the 14 points of Quaid-e-Azam be incorporated in future constitution.
9/4/1952India returns Peking's famine-relief aid, saying it had political strings attached.