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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
2/5/1992D.D. Lapang takes over as the new CM of Meghalaya.
1/22/1992Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was announced to be given to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
2/16/1896Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', great Hindi poet, litterateur, writer, social worker and editor, was born.
12/11/1968Indian born Har Govind Khorana receives the Nobel Price for medicine and physiology.
7/24/1993Vajpayee elected leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha.
6/14/1947Congress Working Committee met at New Delhi to draft the resolution to be placed before All India Congress Committee on the acceptance of Mountbatten plan for the partition of India.
12/29/1984Rajiv Gandhi claims for Indian Prime Minister post after his landslide majority in 8th General Elections.
10/19/1983Union Government takes over the management of 13 textile undertakings in Bombay; marathon strike in cotton textile industry ends.
12/3/19843,000 people died and more than 50,000 people were badly affected when they inhaled poisonous toxic gas emission from the Union Carbide plant. This event is better known as ""the Bhopal Gas Tragedy"", the biggest industrial disaster that occured in India.
10/15/1946Muslim League decides to participate in the Interim Government.