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Historical Event on 8/7/1991
India successfully launches Prithvi-III, surface-to-air missile from Sriharikota.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/15/1918 | K.C.D. Brahaspati, great poet, playwright and orientalist, was born at Rampur, UP. |
| 5/22/1991 | Sonia unanimously elected Congress President by the Working Committee. She, however, declined the offer. |
| 11/9/1977 | Keshavrao Bhole, great music director, passed away. |
| 8/4/1845 | Pherozeshah Mehta, who published the first Hindi newspaper and one of the founders of Indian National Congress, was born in Bombay. |
| 5/9/1981 | Pandit Sundarlal, great revolutionary and writer of 'Bharat Mein Angreji Raj', passed away. |
| 1/1/1862 | Indian Penal Code and code of Criminal Procedure passed on October 6, 1860 came into force. |
| 11/5/1999 | Malcom Marshall, legendary West Indian fast bowler, died at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital after battling colon cancer for over six months. |
| 12/11/1881 | Subramania Bharati was born at Ettaiyapuram. |
| 6/20/1911 | Dattatray Purushottam Karmarkar, veteran freedom fighter and former cabinet minister, died. |
| 2/26/1971 | Noel David, Hyderabad off-spinner who played ODI in 1997, was born. |
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