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Historical Event on 12/9/1992

More than 700 die in clashes in Ayodhya; BJP bandh partial.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/17/1909Bejoy Kumar Sinha, journalist and social worker, was born at Kanpur.
12/11/1926Kamala Kant Pandey was born at Varanasi. He was the first Indian agriculture graduate to win the London Exhibition Scholarship. He was elected fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1966. In 1975, he made the discovery of a ""revolutionary technique in plant breeding
1/1/1995N.D.Tiwari steps down as president of UP Congress committee.
12/28/1931The second round of a British-Indian conference on the political future of India collapsed in disagreement over demands by Indian nationalists for complete independence. The British government had seemed willing to grant a limited dominion status. But Mahatma Gandhi, who had come to the conference to present the demands of the All-India Nationalist Congress, refused to accept anything less than complete independence. The breakdown of the talks set off a new round of disorders, Gandhi was greeted by rioting in the streets of Bombay between upper-caste Hindu members of the Congress party and ""untouchable"" caste members who had turned against him.
2/21/1979Yousuf Hussain, litterateur and brother of President Zakir Hussain Khan, passed away.
11/18/1988Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Delhi on a three-day visit.
11/3/1999Harkishan Singh Surjeet donates property share to his party CPI(M).
12/7/1992Religious riots swept across India in the wake of the destruction of the ancient Babri Masjid mosque by rampaging Hindu fanatics in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya yesterday. More than 800 people had been killed and hundreds injured as Muslim and Hindu mobs stabbed, shooted and beat each other. The violence had thrown the government into chaos and had spilled into the neighboring states of Pakistan and Bangladesh. The army had been called out to restore order in Bombay, where street battles left 41 dead. The stock market had been closed down and Parliament forced to adjourn. Advani quit as the leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha.
2/13/1991Muslim League leaves the UDF in Kerala.
7/27/1941Japanese forces land in Indo-China.