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Historical Event on 7/8/1996
T.N. Seshan, Chief Election Commissioner, wins Magsaysay award.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/29/1904 | Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata, president of Tata industrial group, was born in Paris, France. He was the first pilot of India to be conferred with the Bharat Ratna. |
| 3/16/1901 | Pralhad Balacharya Gajendragadkar, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born. |
| 2/7/1999 | Indian leg-spinner Anil Kumble became the second only bowler in Test history after J.C. Laker (England) to take all ten wickets in an innings against Pakistan in the second Test in Delhi. |
| 7/27/1998 | Gian Singh, convicted for the murder of Sant Harchand Singh Longowal, is sentenced to death. |
| 6/13/1940 | Revolutionary leader Udham Singh was hanged for charges of assassinating Micheal Odair, who was the Governor General of Punjab at the time of Jalianwala Baug massacre. |
| 9/25/1990 | L. K. Advani, BJP President, starts his Somnath Temple, Ayodhya Rath Yathra. |
| 5/26/2000 | Prabhakar G. Surur (93) died in Mumbai. |
| 7/13/1997 | A mob, allegedly of Shiv Sainiks, attacks and ransacks official residences of Congress leaders Chagan Bhujbal and Madhukar Pichad (Assembly). |
| 8/6/1962 | Peking agrees to talks with India to settle border disputes. |
| 1/27/1994 | 55 miners, trapped inside New Kenda Colliery of Eastern Coal Fields, die. |
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