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Historical Event on 12/8/2000

EC nod for Paswans's party to be known as Lok Janshakti Party.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/4/1956Apsara, India's first large scale Atomic Energy Nuclear Reactor and first in the East World, was commissioned in Trombay, Bombay.
8/6/1991Ramakrishna Hegde disqualified as MLA.
2/1/2000The Centre decides to place almost all items under the automatic approval route for foreign direct investment and NRI and OCB investments.
3/3/1707Shehejade Muajjam declared himself as the successor of Aurangzeb and renamed himself Bahadurshah First.
5/15/1999Militants gun down Abdul Ahad Kar, a senior member of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly belonging to the ruling National Conference, in Kupwara district.
9/23/1803British-Indian forces defeated the Marathas in the Battle of Assaye.
7/14/1997Eleventh Presidential election with K.R.Narayanan and T.N. Seshan as candidates; 732 out of 775 MPs and 3893 out of 4058 MLAs cast their ballots.
6/5/1995Manmohan Singh re-elected to Rajya Sabha from Assam.
7/8/1988More than 100 people were killed and several injured as Bangalore-Trivandrum Island Express fell into Ashtamudi lake at Perumon in Quilon district of Kerala.
6/22/1993The centre bans the use of 12 pesticides.