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Historical Event on 12/8/1999

The Opposition attacks Prime Minister Vajpayee for ""withholding'' information on ministers' resignation.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/9/1980P. C. Joshi, former General Secretary of Indian Communist Party, passed away.
1/31/1985Under the 52nd Constitutional Amendment, Anti-Defector Bill was passed unanimously in Lok Sabha. This avoided the Representatives of People to switch over political parties.
1/12/2000Dr. Gurudev S. Khush of the Manila-based International Rice Research Institute wins the Wolf prize for Agriculture for the year 2000.
12/4/1991Lok Sabha approves a vital bill seeking to bring sick public sector units within the purview of the BIFR.
4/14/1998Kushabhau Thakre is declared elected BJP president.
1/23/1999An Australian missionary, Graham Stewart Staines, and his two sons Philip and Timothy are burnt to death by miscreants near Manoharpur village in Orissa's Keonjhar district.
7/14/1997India finishes third in Asian women's weightlifting.
8/19/1903Gangadhar Devram Khanolkar, biographer and critic, was born.
5/12/1984Dr. Rajah Sir Muthiah Chettiar, social reformer, passed away at Madras.
8/27/1958Metric system of weights and measures introduced.