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Historical Event on 8/8/2000
S.Nijalingappa (97), former Karnataka Chief Minister, died at his residence in Chitradurga.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/9/1995 | Two new gas and oil reserves found off the Gujarat and Bombay coast. |
| 10/2/1954 | Chandernagar, former under French possession, was made a part of West Bengal. |
| 1/27/1948 | Gandhiji visits Mehrauli Muslim Fair. |
| 12/16/1999 | Michael Johnson's 400m world record (43.18s) set up in the Seville World championship was ratified by IAAF. Other records also ratified were Kenyan Noah Ngeny's 1000m mark (2 11.96, Reiti, Italy) and Moroccan Hicham el Guerrouj's 2000m (4 44.79, Berlin). |
| 10/10/1927 | Bansilal, leader of Lokdal Party, was born |
| 11/8/1968 | Jansattak Party established. |
| 7/16/1993 | Russia cancels cryogenic rocket deal with India. |
| 2/24/1880 | Satyanarayan, great poet of Kannada language, was born. |
| 5/26/1998 | Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati, economist, was awarded the 1998 Freedom Prize of the Max Schmidmeiny Foundation. |
| 2/10/1691 | Job Charnock established the first English factory in Calcutta. |
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