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Historical Event on 8/7/1980
Mother Teresa visits the poor in Bronx at New York.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/10/1997 | Bill Gates, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft, announces Rs. 2.5 crore aid to Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Gandhi Institute of Computer Education and Information Technology, Mumbai. |
| 5/22/1996 | Ravi Shastri appointed UNICEF's national ambassador for children. |
| 7/14/1963 | Swami Shivanand Saraswati, religious leader, passed away. |
| 10/16/1942 | Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 people in south of Calcutta, India. |
| 2/9/1985 | Editor of 'Sakal', a Marathi daily newspaper, passed away. |
| 8/13/1997 | The contentious women's reservation bill put on the back burner with PM Gujral saying govt. would not push through such a major social legislation until there was a consensus on it. |
| 11/1/1999 | Soli Sorbajee is re-appointed the Attorney General. |
| 9/9/1993 | Narsimha Rao, Prime Minister, arrived in Seoul for a three-day visit. |
| 6/7/2000 | Telecom Commission approves the free phone bonanza for all telecom employees announced by the Union Communications Minister Ram Vilas Paswan. |
| 6/19/1981 | APPLE, India's first experimental geo-stationary telecommunication satellite having experimental communication satellite, successfully launched by European Ariane, Kourou, French Guiana. This is the first to be stabilized on 3 axes. |
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