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Historical Event on 7/8/1997
33 persons killed and 67 injured as blast rips through part of Ambala-bound train at Lehra Khana station in Bhatinda district, Punjab.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/2/1968 | Lok Sabha passed the Public Providend Fund Act. |
| 2/24/1986 | Rukmini Devi passed away. |
| 4/11/1993 | Laxmanrao Madhav Bhide, senior freedom fighter and history expert, passed away. |
| 5/13/1991 | P. Sudhir Kumar released in exchange for a few Naxals in jail. |
| 7/27/1949 | Agreement reached on the ceasefire line in Kashmir. |
| 8/20/1969 | Varahagiri Venkata Giri was elected President and G. S. Pathak as Vice President of India. |
| 3/23/1898 | Nalinibala Devi, Assamia poet, was born. |
| 4/3/1999 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2E), fifth satellite in INSAT-2 series, launched. This has multipurpose communication & meteorological capabilities. This is still in use. Launched by European launch vehicle Ariane, ISRO has leased eleven 36 MHz equivalent units of C-band capacity on board to INTELSAT organisation. |
| 6/16/1998 | Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh Prime Minister, meets her Indian couterpart A B Vajpayee in New Delhi. |
| 2/21/1878 | Mother-Pondicherry, greatest world teacher, was born in Paris. |
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