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Historical Event on 8/8/1972
Olympics open at Munich (26).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/29/1956 | India gets $ 360 million loan as food aid. |
| 6/30/1917 | Dr. Dadabhai Naoroji, great Indian, patriot and one of the founders of the Indian National Congress, politician and merchant, died at the age of 92. |
| 8/16/1997 | Bodo extremists kill 13 villagers in Nalbari district in Assam. |
| 4/1/1947 | Gandhiji addresses Asian Relations Conference in Delhi. |
| 5/19/1913 | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, President of India, was born. |
| 5/13/1994 | Telecom sector opened to private companies under the new national policy announced in Parliament. |
| 6/3/1930 | George John Fernandes, social reformer and politician, was born in Mangalore (Karnataka). |
| 6/13/1997 | At least 60 persons were feared killed and several injured in a fire in Uphaar Grand cinema in South Delhi. |
| 2/17/1980 | Indira Gandhi dissolves nine state assemblies led by opposition. She imposed presidential rule in Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, U.P., Bihar, Orissa, M.P., Rajasthan, Punjab and Gujarat. |
| 1/21/1910 | Ramnath Anandilal Poddar, great industrialist, was born. |
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