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Historical Event on 2/8/1994
Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/20/1917 | Ram Gopal, great Indies /English classical dancer (Blue Peter, Purple Plain), was born. |
| 5/22/1991 | Shripad Amrit Dange, veteran communist leader, passed away. |
| 6/6/1997 | U.S. Congress honours Mother Teresa with a gold medal. |
| 12/27/1976 | The Kangla Tongbi war memorial built for 221 members who laid down their lives to repulsed several waves of Japanese attacks. Advance Base Depot is shifted to Jabalpur. The original memorial was erected on 15 April 1946 from local stone and the main epitaph displayed above is of black Naga stone. |
| 9/30/1992 | Laurie Baker wins Rs. 25 lakh UN World Habitat award. |
| 5/7/1912 | Pannalal Patel, great Gujrati novelist and story writer, was born. |
| 7/13/1930 | Swarup Kishan Reu, cricket test umpire for 17 tests from 1978-85, was born in Delhi and was honoured by Padmashree in 1986. He joins the record of umpiring most Tests for India. |
| 8/13/1960 | Marmik' weekly magzine published. |
| 9/1/1999 | The Congress(I) President, Ms. Sonia Gandhi, launches a broadside against the Vajpayee Government on handling of Kargil issue. |
| 1/29/1976 | Parliamenentary Committee on official language constituted. The Committee has since then submitted six parts of its report and Presidential orders have been issued on first five parts of it. The sixth part is in print. |
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