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Historical Event on 8/12/1979

Heavy rains resulted in bursting of a dam thus causing floods in Moorvi and Lilapur in Gujarat, killing over 1,335 people.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/21/1959Chinese and Indian troops clash on Ladakh border.
3/11/1999Indian Davis Cup player and Asian Games gold medallist Gaurav Natekar announced in Mumbai his retirement from competitive tennis.
8/8/1948Dr. Yellapragada Subbarow, saintly scientist and nobel prize winner, passed away at Pearl River, New York.
10/3/1999India finished with seven silver and four bronze medals in the Asian Junior Athletic Championship in Singapore.
5/15/1992Harshad Mehta suspended.
3/24/1947Lord Louis Mountbatten came to India.
2/13/1991Surjit Singh Barnala resigns as Governor of Tamil Nadu.
2/12/1932Roby James Francis D. Silva, great industrialist, artist and designer, was born at Bombay.
8/1/1970Bhopal University was established.
8/19/1992K.R.Narayanan elected the ninth Vice President of India.