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Historical Event on 2/8/1985
P. K. Kaul was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 22-08-1986.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/4/1997 | Dharmavir Bharti, great journalist and editor of Dharamyug, died at 6 am. |
| 5/17/1974 | Durgadas, famous Indian journalist, passed away. |
| 9/16/1931 | R. Ramachandra Rao, cricket test umpire for one test in 1986-87, was born at Tamil Nadu. |
| 1/30/1999 | Pandit Ravi Shankar, sitar maestro, is chosen for Bharat Ratna. |
| 1/19/1966 | Indira Gandhi elected leader of the Congress party to succeed the late Lal Bahadur Shastri as the third Prime Minister of India. She pledged to follow path of Non-Alignment in worlds affairs. |
| 5/10/1901 | Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian scientist, in the hall of the Royal Society, London, which was packed with eminent scientists today on May 10, 1901 proved that ""plants and animal have similar touch sense"". |
| 6/1/1998 | Finance Minister announced the Swadeshi budget. |
| 10/20/1969 | Punjabrao Agriculture University established. |
| 4/26/1999 | India's Atanu Lahiri and Bhagyashree Thipsay won the men's and women's titles respectively in the Commonwealth chess championship in Bikaner. |
| 1/9/1923 | Satyendranath Tagore, Bengali litterateur, passed away. |
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