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Historical Event on 8/8/1967

Central government, for the first time since independence, suffered a token defeat in the Lok Sabha.

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11/24/1991Bihar's ruling JD makes a clean sweep of all the three Lok Sabha seats in the by-elections.
3/31/1994Argentina President Carlos Menem visits India.
10/17/1906Swami Ramtirtha, great social reformer and poet, died at the age of 33.
10/3/1950India protests U.N. troops' crossing of 38th parallel in New York.
6/21/1994The Janata Dal splits again, 14 of its 39 Lok Sabha members seek separate seats as a group.
7/4/1999S. Vijayalakshmi won the National women's `A' chess championship with a round to spare in Kozhikode.
7/29/1911Mohan Bagan became the first Indian football team to win the I.F.A. Shield.
5/24/1875Sir Sayed Ahmed Khan established Mohmmad Anglo Oriental School which was renamed in 1920 as 'Aligarh Muslim University'.
1/25/1950The post of the Governor General of India was abolished.
11/20/1942Attri Devi, freedom fighter, was arrested for further six months. She was earlier arrested for personal satyagraha and to hoist the national flag in Delhi Central Jail on January 26.