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Person born on 12th December
1872 - Balakrishna Shivram Munje - freedom fighter and president of the Hindu Mahasabha.
1950 - Superstar Rajinikanth - A famous veteran actor of Tamil and Hindi films.
1954 - Hemant Karkare - 1982 batch IPS officer and he was the chief of the anti-terrorist squad in the Mumbai terror attacks.
1959 - Krishnamachari Srikkanth - former captain of the Indian cricket team, born in Madras.
1981 - India's famous all-rounder Sixer King Yuvraj Singh was born in Chandigarh.
1997 - Ravi Kumar Dahiya - is an Indian freestyle wrestling player who won a silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Died on 12 December
323 - Venice-born Italian tourist Marco Polo dies at the age of 69.
1925 - Radhacharan Goswami - a resident of Braj, a pro-Braj language, was a litterateur, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, social reformer, patriot and scholar of a high order in Sanskrit.
1964 - Maithilisharan Gupta - Famous as a national poet, was a famous Hindi language poet.
2000 – Senior Janata Dal (U) leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister J.H Patel died at the age of 71 in Bengaluru (Karnataka).
2005 - Ramanand Sagar - Famous Indian film director and producer of the famous Doordarshan's very popular serial 'Ramayana' and 'Krishna'.
2012 - Nityanand Swami - First Chief Minister of Uttarakhand and Indian politician.
2019 – Veteran Telugu actor and writer Gollapudi Maruthi Rao passed away.
2019 - New Zealand Olympic athletic champion Peter Snell died.
Important Occasions and Celebrations of 12th December
- Poinsettia Day.
- Gingerbread House Day.
- National Amrit Day.
- National Ding-a-Ling Day.
- International Neutrality Day.
- Shri Rajinikanth Birthday.
- Shri Ramanand Sagar Punya Diwas.
- International Day of Neutrality.
- Sri Nityananda Swami Memorial Day.
- Shri Maithilisharan Gupta Memorial Day.
- Worldwide Candle Lighting Day.
- Cricketer Mr. Yuvraj Singh Birthday.
- Shri Jaydevappa Halappa Patel Memorial Day.
- The Compassionate Friend (second Sunday in December).
- World Hymn Day (2nd Sunday in December).
- International Universal Health Coverage Day.
- Sacrificial/Swadeshi-Day (Sacrifice of Babu Genu).
Important Events of 12th December
1787 - Pennsylvania becomes the second province to adopt the US Constitution.
1800 - Washington DC is made the capital of America.
1822 - Mexico is officially recognized as an independent nation by the US.
1884 - The first cricket test match was played between Australia and England.
1901 - G. Marconi sent a radio message over the Atlantic for the first time. This communication took place between Cornwall in England and Newfoundland in Canada.
1911 - The capital of India was shifted from Calcutta to Delhi.
1911 - George V and Mary come to India as Emperors of India.
1915 - Chinese President Yuan Xi Kei restores the monarchy and declares himself Emperor of China.
1917 – A French army train derails in the French Alps, killing 543.
1923 – 600 people are killed when the Po River dam bursts in Italy.
1924 - Spanish forces leave Morocco.
1936 - Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek declares war on Japan.
1957 - The United States announces the start of production of barzone, harder than diamond.
1963 - Kenya, a country on the African continent, gained independence from Britain and this day was declared as the country's national day.
1971 - All the facilities provided by the Indian Parliament to the former kings were canceled.
1980 - US changes copyright law to include computer programs in it.
1981 – Former Peruvian representative Javier Perez de Cuyar is elected Secretary-General of the United Nations.
1990 - T.N. Seshan - became the Chief Election Commissioner.
1992 - Giant Buddha statue installed at Hussain Sagar Lake in Hyderabad.
1996 - Signing of a 30-year treaty between India and Bangladesh on the sharing of Ganges water.
1998 - The US House Judicial Committee approves the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.
1998 - Alexander Lobhnitbin, the Nobel laureate in the field of literature, refuses to accept Russia's highest cultural prize.
2001 - India gave two Cheetah helicopters and weapons to Nepal.
2007 – A Peruvian court sentences former President Alberto Fujimaro to 6 years in prison and a fine of $13,000.
2007 - Malaysia appoints Tan Seung Sun as its new High Commissioner to India.
2007 - The US Parliament imposes new sanctions on Myanmar.
2008 - Administrative Reforms Commission Chairman M Veerappa Moily recommends comprehensive changes in service corporations of government employees.
2008 - Raman Singh of Chhattisgarh and Shivraj Singh took oath as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
2017 - The international community observed 12 December as the first International Day of Universal Health Coverage.
2019 - The Maldivian government signed a joint venture agreement with Indian companies.
2019 - President Ram Nath Kovind signs the bill and gives his assent after Parliament passes the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019.
2019 - The world's first marine cemetery was built from plastic bottles in Kozhikode, Kerala to make people aware of the increasing pollution due to single-use plastic.
2020 - The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, delivered the inaugural address at the 93rd Annual General Meeting and Annual Conference of FICCI via video conferencing and also addressed the Global Climate Summit on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Paris Climate Agreement.
2020 - Israel establishes diplomatic relations with Bhutan.
