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Historical Event on 2/8/1993

India and Spain sign four agreements as the Spanish PM, Felipe Gonzalez, began a two-day visit to New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/28/1999Senior Awami League leader Mohammed Anwar Sheikh is killed and his wife and daughter-in-law are seriously injured in a militant attack on his house in Kashmir.
6/11/1997BSE sensitive index reaches 3927.
2/2/1967US President Johnson orders consignment of 2 mil. tons of food grains to be sent to India.
8/3/1998India's most sophisticated medium range surface-to-air missile ''Akash'' was test-fired from the interim test range at Chandipur-on-sea.
5/1/1958Bell, 47 G3, the flight was upgraded to a helicopter unit with a Sqn Ldr as its Commanding Officer.
1/27/1931Mahatma Gandhi was released from jail, ending eight months of imprisonment for his campaign of civil disobedience against British rule. To avoid demonstrations, Gandhi was released late in the evening from the Yerovda jail and put on a night train to Bombay. There was hope in British circles that the release of Gandhi would end the strife and lead to discussions of dominion status. Gandhi made clear, however, that he would persist in his civil disobedience campaign.
4/1/1989UN Peace-keeping Force arrives in Windhoek to prefare for independence of Namibia.
7/2/1993ONGC converted into corporation by ordinance.
4/23/1926Madhavrao Sapre, great political leader, passed away.
11/22/1968Lok Sabha passed notification to change the name of Madras state as Tamil Nadu.