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Historical Event on 7/8/1958
Lord Canning declared that since peace was established, it is better known as end of Indian Mutiny, 1857.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/8/1948 | Air India International was established for overseas services. |
| 5/5/1955 | Indian parliament accept Hindu divorce. |
| 2/10/1986 | Pope John Paul II ends visit to India. |
| 6/18/1966 | California's hippie subculture converged into a mass of long hair, flowers, and rock music this weekend, as 50,000 flowed into the fairgrounds of the Monterey International Pop Festival. The event featured the largest collection of major rock acts ever assembled; thousands of fans had to be turned away from the sold-out concert. Established artists such as the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, and the Mamas and the Papas received the expected ovations from the huge audience. But the response was equally enthusiastic for performances by Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar and new talents Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix, a young man who played the electric guitar like nobody else. |
| 10/12/1995 | Inderjit Gupta re-elected General Secretary of CPI. |
| 11/29/1996 | The Indian Journal of Medical Research brought out special issues, as part of the 85th year celebrations of ICMR, on Nutrition Research (November 1995) and Diarrhoeal Diseases (July, 1996). The ICMR Bulletin also brought out special issues on such topics as Nutrition, Tuberculosis, AIDS, Tribal Health, etc. so as to coincide with the theme selected for a particular month as part of the celebrations. As part of the global theme initiative coordinated by JAMA, USA, the January 1996 issue of the ICMR was devoted to 'Emerging and Re-emerging Infections'. |
| 2/24/1996 | Naresh Chandra appointed India's ambassador to USA. |
| 7/25/1938 | Gautam Kalicharan, famous Hindi poet, was born. |
| 3/10/1939 | 17 villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad, India. |
| 1/27/1927 | Michael Craig, actor (Escape 2000, Vault of Horror), was born in Pune. |
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