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Historical Event on 7/8/1928
Eighteen died when an East Indian Railroad train was derailed after saboteurs removed part of the tracks.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/8/1936 | Corbett National Park was established. It was the first country in the country. |
| 8/15/1947 | Brigadier Thakur Mahadeo Singh was the first Indian Commandant. He was the DSO of Indian Militery Academy. |
| 4/8/1998 | Prem Singh Lalpura, who defied the Akali Dal leadership, not taking oath as a Lok Sabha member on denial of a ministerial berth, is expelled by the party. |
| 2/23/1997 | 176 people dead and 500 injured in a major fire at a religious congregation in Baripada, Orissa. |
| 9/15/1861 | Dr. Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, famous architect, engineer and a diplomat, also a Bharat Ratna awardee, was born at Chickballapur in Mysore (Karnataka) in a poor Brahmin family. |
| 1/31/1983 | The first floating Dry Dock was launched at Howrah. |
| 1/20/1992 | Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup. |
| 9/13/2000 | Central Government withdraws the ban on use of non-iodised salt despite protests from the medical community and several state governments. |
| 9/19/1933 | Sunit Francis Rodrigues, former Chief Army General, was born. |
| 8/25/1965 | Indian troops cross the Kashmir ceasefire line pursuing Pakistani infiltrators. |
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