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Historical Event on 6/12/1960

783 Sikhs are arrested while demonstrating for an independent Sikh state in New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/22/1975Vasant Krishna Desai, famous music director, died.
1/1/1924Krishna Mohan Jha, famous educationist, was born at Pokharia near Katihar (Purnea).
12/11/1991R. G. Sardesai, veteran journalist, died.
11/6/1930First Round Table Conference held at London.
2/26/1971Noel David, Hyderabad off-spinner who played ODI in 1997, was born.
12/10/1936Duke of York succeeds King Edward as King George VI.
10/2/2000Mukesh Kumar, India hockey player, retires from international hockey.
1/15/1998Gulzari Lal Nanda, Gandhian freedom fighter and twice acting Prime Minister in 1964 and 1966, died in Ahmedabad at the age of 100 years.
5/6/1922Chhatrapati Rajarshi Shahu, great revolutionary, freedom fighter and social reformer of Kolhapur, passed away at Bombay. He was 48.
12/10/1902Sir Ronald Ross was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for detecting the cause of Malaria.