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Historical Event on 3/8/1997
G. K. Moopanar unanimously elected first president of Tamil Maanila Congress.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/10/1909 | Gandhiji replies to Tolstoy, sends his biography by Doke. |
| 2/8/1986 | For the first time in the country, pre-paid taxi sevice scheme was established at New Delhi airport. |
| 12/25/1999 | An Indian Airlines aircraft with 187 passengers on board is hijacked. The plane was going from Katmandu to New Delhi. It lands near Abu Dhabi after several hops. |
| 4/13/1999 | D. Sripada Rao, former Speaker of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly, is shot dead by People's War Group naxalites near Annaram village in Karimnagar district. |
| 3/25/1933 | Vasantrao Gowarikar, space scientist, was born. |
| 12/1/1982 | Pakistan beats India to win hockey gold in the Asian Games. |
| 10/3/1903 | Swami Ramanand Tirth, politician and educationist, was born. |
| 10/11/1991 | BJP government in U.P. acquires the disputed Ayodhya land. |
| 5/15/1997 | Yaseen Malik, All-Party Hurriyat Conference leader, was released from Tihar jail. |
| 5/15/1997 | Francisco de Almeida, Viceroy of Protuguese India, passed away in a battle. |
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