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Historical Event on 7/8/1996
T.N. Seshan, Chief Election Commissioner, wins Magsaysay award.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/29/1948 | Angry refugees ask Gandhiji to retire to the Himalayas. |
| 1/21/1922 | V. Rajagopal, cricket test umpire for 1 test in 1969-70, was born in Mumbai. |
| 5/16/1975 | Sikkim annexed principality and was declared as the 22nd state of Indian Union. |
| 5/19/1980 | T. N. Raina, former General of India, passed away. |
| 6/19/1947 | Salman Rushdie, English writer, was born in Bombay. |
| 2/27/1999 | Union Budget presented. Fiscal deficit cut to 4.4 per cent. |
| 3/26/1969 | Romesh Chandra, secretary general of the World Peace Council, receives the Lenin prize |
| 1/6/1942 | Four of the flight's six aircraft were promptly lost to Japanese bombing and No. 4 Flight gave place in Moulmein to No. 3 Flight which had meanwhile re-equipped with four ex-RAF Blenheim ls. B-314 completed first commercial flight around the world. |
| 7/16/1905 | A decision to boycott British goods was taken at Bagarhat. |
| 11/5/1892 | John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, biologist, was born at Oxford. |
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