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Historical Event on 8/7/1999
A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, appeals to the United States to name Pakistan as a terrorist state.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/8/1995 | Harcharan Singh Brar sworn in as the Chief Minister of Punjab. |
| 5/6/1910 | Edward VII, King of Great Britain and Emperor of India, died suddenly of pneumonia at Buckingham Palace tonight. He ruled Britain for nine years. Power passed immediately to his son George, the Prince of Wales, who will rule as King George V. The 68-year-old monarch's sudden death threw his country into a state of shock. Edward had apparently caught a cold during a visit the past weekend to the wet grounds of his estate at Sandringham. |
| 6/16/1946 | Cabinet Mission negotiations were discontinued. Viceroy proposed Interim Government. |
| 2/4/1994 | India elected to the executive boards of UNDP, UN Population Fund and UNICEF. |
| 7/9/1999 | Ashok Mitra (82), noted writer, academician and former bureaucrat, died in Calcutta. |
| 1/20/1993 | Captain Karamjeet Singh, first Pramveer Chakra Awardee, passed away. |
| 9/18/1992 | M. Hidayatullah, former Vice President and Chief Justice, died. He was 87. |
| 6/13/1996 | Ramakrishna Hegde, JD leader and former Karnataka CM, expelled from the party for 6 years by JD president Laloo Prasad Yadav for anti-party activities. |
| 3/19/1944 | Azad Hind Fauj hoisted the National Flag for the first time in North East India. On this event Bimal Roy produced the film 'Pehla Aadmi'. |
| 5/6/2000 | Benoy Krishna Chowdhury (89), veteran freedom fighter and prominent CPI(M) leader, died at a Government Hospital in Calcutta. |
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