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Historical Event on 3/8/1986
L.K. Advani elected President of BJP.
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| 2/14/1929 | Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad. |
| 11/15/1991 | Insurance official Dr. S.L. Khosa freed in Kashmir in exchange for a militant. |
| 8/5/1950 | Gopinath Bardoloi, architect of modern Assam, freedom fighter and leader, passed away. |
| 7/2/1992 | Six new ministers inducted into the Union Cabinet. |
| 9/29/1836 | Chamber of Commerce and Industry was established in Madras |
| 9/12/1899 | Vibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, world famous Bengali novelist, was born. |
| 7/24/1992 | Universal Poetry Foundation' was established at Pune. |
| 5/22/1996 | Ravi Shastri appointed UNICEF's national ambassador for children. |
| 9/15/1862 | Gaurishankar Hirachand Oza, famous historian, was born. |
| 11/1/1945 | Narendra Dabholkar, blind faith eradicator (Andhashradhha Nirmulak), was born. |
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