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Historical Event on 7/8/1985
Sri Lanka Peace talks open in Thimphu.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/23/1930 | The Simon Commission recommends a federal India and the separation of Burma at London. |
| 2/1/1827 | Gordon's Esplanade building was established in Calcutta's Bengal Club. |
| 5/8/1962 | Ravindra Bharti University established in West Bengal. |
| 2/5/1924 | Gandhiji was released after operated on for appendicitis in Sassoon Hospital, Poona. |
| 9/9/1999 | Mr. V. Sudarshan, Foreign Editor of The Pioneer till recently gets the Appan Menon Award. |
| 4/21/1990 | The first indigenously built missile cruiser boat, 'Vibhuti', was inaugurated and launched. |
| 4/28/1945 | Ajit Manohar Pai, cricketer (one Test India v NZ 1969), was born in Bombay. |
| 8/13/1993 | All the TDP MLAs suspended from Andhra Pradesh Assembly. |
| 12/11/1976 | Aliyawar Jung, former Governor of Maharashtra, died. |
| 10/31/1984 | Indira Gandhi, India's four-time prime minister, was gunned down by two members of her personal security guard as she walked from her home to her office in New Delhi. She died after four hours of emergency surgery. The only daughter of former Prime Minister Nehru was 66. Both of her attackers were identified as members of the Sikh religion. One was shot dead. The other was captured. Sikh extremists had threatened to kill Ms. Gandhi since she ordered the raid on their shrine in Amritsar. She had told an interviewer that she was not intimidated by the threats. 'I am not afraid,' she said. 'I am frequently attacked.' |
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