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Historical Event on 12/8/1994
At 1730 hrs, a rocket propelled grenade fired by Somalia militia during inter clan fighting exploded on the roof of the barrack which housed IAF officers. In the explosion, two officers and an airman were injured.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/26/1989 | Keshav Shankar Pillai, international fame cartoonist, painter, writer and Padma Bhushan awardee, passed away. |
| 9/25/1990 | L. K. Advani, BJP President, starts his Somnath Temple, Ayodhya Rath Yathra. |
| 3/4/1895 | Surendra Singh Majithia, great industrialist, was born. |
| 1/14/1995 | The 5th Pay Commission suggests trimming of bureaucracy. |
| 10/26/1928 | R.S.Das, a law member of the Viceroy's council, died in Calcutta. |
| 6/4/1902 | Richard Allen, India, field hockey goal tender (Olympic-gold-1928), was born. |
| 4/3/1956 | Nehru announces that troops have been sent to control Naga tribal people in the Burmese border area, who are asking for a separate state. |
| 8/29/1931 | Gandhi arrives in London for second Round Table Conference on India. |
| 3/12/1995 | Congress party loses India national election. |
| 6/5/1995 | A three-week long, the first ever Indo-US joint army training exercise begins. |
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