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Historical Event on 12/8/1980
Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev visits New Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/9/1963 | India is the first country to add its signature to the test-ban treaty at Moscow. |
| 2/18/1988 | Jan Nayak Karpoori Thakur, freedom fighter, political leader, great social reformer, teacher and national president of Samyukta Socialist Party, passed away. |
| 10/30/1883 | Swami Dayanand Saraswati, founder of Arya Samaj, died in Ajmer. |
| 2/16/1982 | Jawaharlal Nehru was staged first time in Calcutta Invitation International Gold Cup Football Tournament. |
| 6/5/1997 | I. K. Gujral's visit to Nepal was marked by signing of Power Trade Agreement and MoU on civil aviation. |
| 1/3/1836 | Munshi 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. |
| 2/28/1987 | The National Science Day was celebrated for the first time at the ICMR Headquarters and all its Institutes/Centres in February 1987 through exhibitions, lectures, demonstration campaigns etc. (This has now become an annual event). |
| 4/4/1938 | A. M. Chakrabarty was born in Sainthia at West Bengal. He found that under the optimum conditions of time, temperature and nutrients the Hydrocarbon-eating "qualities'' of four diffrent strains of bacteria could be transferred into one. He also showed that this super-strain of bacteria reproduces itself. |
| 3/27/1977 | N. Sanjeeva Reddy elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha. |
| 6/28/1995 | Madhya Pradesh in central India is designated a `tiger state' to protect the animal from poachers and settlers. |
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