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Historical Event on 8/8/1966
India endorses the Partial Nuclear Ban Treaty.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/12/1935 | Shivraj Vishwanath Patil, former Speaker of Lok Sabha, was born |
| 6/20/1994 | Anti-Pakistan slogans rent the air in Jammu & Kashmir against the killing of Quazi Nissar Ahmed, Mirwaiz of South Kashmir and a famous religious Kashmiri leader who was gunned down by Pak-aided terrorists. |
| 11/5/1951 | Western Railways and Central Railways were formed in Bombay; seperate Time Tables were setup. |
| 4/15/1919 | Arjan Singh, Air Chief Marshal and Padma Vibhushan, DFC, was born in Lyalpur. |
| 2/21/1952 | General Election ( 1st) of India ends. |
| 8/6/1925 | Surendra Nath Banerjee died. He was one of the founders of mordern India and proponent of autonomy within the British Commonwealth. He was President of Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad. |
| 7/29/1997 | Rabri Devi inducts 60 ministers, including 22 of cabinet rank, thus raising strength of her Council of Ministers to 74. |
| 9/21/1857 | Bahadurshah Jafar - II surrendered against the British troops. |
| 11/11/1921 | Gandhi urges Hindus to remove statue of ex-Viceroy Lord Lawrence. |
| 6/29/1893 | Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, physics, mathematics expert and founder of Indian Statistical Institute, was born at Calcutta. |
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