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Historical Event on 7/8/1996

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Other Historical Dates and Events
12/5/1943The Japanese planes attack Calcutta port.
2/27/1956G. V. Mavlankar, first speaker of Lok Sabha, passed away.
10/16/1942Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 people in south of Calcutta, India.
12/29/1975D.K. Barooah elected Congress President.
9/27/1958Mihir Sen becomes the first Indian to cross the English Channel from Dover to Calais.
6/9/2000The CBI-designated court frames charges against Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi and RJD president Laloo Prasad Yadav in the disproportionate assets case.
2/22/1993Sudhakarrao Naik, Mahrashtra CM, resigns in the wake of party dissidence.
5/10/1857India's real mutiny begins with the revolt of Sepoys of Meerut near Delhi the next day.
5/10/1857Queen Elizabeth I granted its Royal Charter to the 218 Knights and merchants of the City of London who formed the East India Company. The venture failed to achieve its stated objectives -- it made little impression on the Dutch control of the spice trade and could not establish a lasting outpost in the East Indies.
3/26/1931New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies.