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Historical Event on 8/8/1984
P.T. Usha at Los Angeles sets record for 400m H. (Women) in 55.42.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/3/1983 | Seventh Non-Aligned Summit started at New Delhi. |
| 4/1/1976 | Television was separated from radio, and Doordarshan Corporation was established. |
| 1/26/1957 | India annexes Kashmir, Constitution for incorporation with India goes into effect. |
| 10/11/1894 | Sudhirranjan Das, former Chief Justice of Supreme Court, was born. |
| 11/18/1991 | In the by-elections, Congress gets 8 Lok Sabha seats and suffers rout in UP assembly, while BJP gets absolute majority. |
| 10/26/1950 | Mother Teresa founded Mission of Charity in Calcutta, India. |
| 1/4/1924 | Vidyadhar Gokhle, editor, playwright and politician, was born. |
| 1/21/1961 | Queen of Britain, Elizabeth II, and her husband Duke of Edinburgh visited New Delhi. |
| 2/16/1923 | Vishnu Moreshwar Mahajani, famous author, poet and playwright, passed away. |
| 6/8/1948 | Malabar Princess', Air India's first international flight, takes off from Bombay to London via Cairo and Geneva. This was weekly air service was started between India to United Kingdom. |
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