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Historical Event on 8/8/1984
P.T. Usha at Los Angeles sets record for 400m H. (Women) in 55.42.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/1/1994 | Six leading Akali factions dissolved to form a new party, the Shiromani Akali Dal-Amritsar, which wanted a 'Sikh State'. |
| 7/20/1924 | Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar established Bahishkrit Hitkarni Sabha. |
| 5/14/1978 | Jagdishchandra Mathur, modern Hindi playwright, passed away. |
| 9/29/1991 | Ustad Yunus Hussain Khan, famous singer of 'Agra Gharana', passed away. |
| 7/27/1998 | Gian Singh, convicted for the murder of Sant Harchand Singh Longowal, is sentenced to death. |
| 10/10/1964 | Gurbachan Singh Randhawa sets record for 110m Her. in 14.09s at Tokyo. |
| 5/2/1921 | Satyajeet Ray, world famous film director and a very short story writer, was born in a family of artistS. In 1989, he was awarded highest honour of France ''Legion d Honeur''. |
| 3/13/1800 | Nana Phadanvis (Balaji Janardan Bhanu), veteran leader of Peshwa Kingdom, died. |
| 7/3/1997 | Tamil actor Sivaji Ganesan gets 1996 Dada Saheb Phalke award for outstanding contribution to Indian cinema. |
| 2/24/1994 | Sharp increase in freight rates in the 1994-95 Railway budget; Pre-budget Economic Survey puts GDP growth in 1993-94 at 3.8\%. |
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