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Historical Event on 8/7/1999
A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, appeals to the United States to name Pakistan as a terrorist state.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/14/1956 | Dr. Bhimrao Ramji, Ambedkar and about two lakh scheduled caste men and women embraced Buddhism in Nagpur. |
| 8/20/1995 | Indira Mahila Vikas Yojana launched. |
| 1/10/1896 | Shri Narhar Vishnu Gadgil (Kakasaheb), famous politician, freedom fighter, lawyer, prolific writer, social reformer, nationalist leader and litterateur, was born. |
| 1/20/1994 | Chinese film 'Farewell, My Concubine' and Adoor Gopalakrishnan's 'Vidheyan' adjudged best Foreign and Indian films in the 25th International Film Festival at Calcutta. |
| 10/20/1999 | The Centre accepts the recommendations of the Backward Classes Commission on the inclusion of Jats and other backward classes (OBCs) in Rajasthan except Bharatpur and Dholpur districts. |
| 5/14/1907 | Muhammad Ayub Khan, Pakistani president, was born. |
| 2/4/1994 | India elected to the executive boards of UNDP, UN Population Fund and UNICEF. |
| 6/9/1980 | M. G. Ramachandran's second AIADMK ministry takes office. |
| 12/1/1764 | Battle of Anvadi. |
| 12/28/1688 | Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb demolishes all temples (around 1,000) in Mathura. (During their reign, Muslim rulers had destroyed roughly 60,000 Hindu temples throughout India, constructing mosques on 3,000 sites). |
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