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Historical Event on 7/8/1999

The bodies of 12 soldiers, who martyred in Kargil battle, were brought to New Delhi. So far 321 soldiers were killed and 476 wounded in operation Vijay.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/20/1969Varahagiri Venkata Giri was elected President and G. S. Pathak as Vice President of India.
11/29/1989Voters oust Gandhi and Congress party
2/10/1921Mahatma Gandhi inaugurated Kashi Vidya Peeth.
11/2/1992Nine Maharashtra ministers resign.
1/21/1999Bal Thackeray, Shiv Sena chief, suspends his party's protest against the coming India-Pakistan cricket matches after an urgent meeting with the Union Home Minister in Mumbai.
12/28/1981Salman Rushdie is awarded the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children.
12/7/1979Ramandeep Singh Gill, Soccer(Football) player, was born in Oslo, Norway.
11/7/1936Chandrakant Devtale, famous Hindi poet, was born.
4/17/1946Bellary Raghava, famous actor, social worker, lawyer and dramatist, passed away.
10/24/2000Delhi High Court admitted the appeal of former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao against the lower court judgement in the JMM MPs' bribery case.