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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
2/26/1971Noel David, Hyderabad off-spinner who played ODI in 1997, was born.
4/1/1889Hindu', English language newspaper changed its perodicity from weekly (20/09/1888) to daily.
5/10/198559 were killed and 150 wounded in Sikh attacks.
6/22/1959Iyengar Kasturi Srinivas, great politician and journalist, passed away.
1/18/1997SC says telephone tapping is violation of fundamental rights but permits it by government in special circumstances.
2/25/1968Judge Mohammad Hidayatullah became the Chief Justice of India. He held this office till 16/12/1970.
11/1/1902Alwar Iyengar Jaggu, famous Hindi writer and professor, was born at Chatra Ghosham.
7/5/1992Centre scraps octroi in Union Territories.
11/3/1995Sheila Kaul becomes Governor of Himachal Pradesh, P. Shivshankar of Kerala and V Reghunath Reddy takes additional charge of Sikkim.
1/3/1836Munshi Newal Kishore, son of Jamuna Prasad Bhargava--a zamindar of Aligarh-- and a great erudite scholar, educationist, nationalist, social worker and a pioneer industrialist, was born. He was the founder of Navalkishore Press, Lucknow (1858), which published 2612 books that elaborated Hindi literature. He was the Publisher of Awadhi Newspaper in Asia.