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Historical Event on 8/9/1997

Sonia Gandhi addresses Congress plenary session at Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/12/2000A special court for CBI cases rejects Hinduja brothers' plea and summons them to appear on January 19, 2001.
6/27/1964Teen Murti Bhavan, official residence of the Prime Minister of India, became the Nehru Memorial Museum.
12/29/1975D.K. Barooah elected Congress President.
6/5/1984Operation 'Blue Star' was launched by Indira Gandhi. Indian commandos stormed into Sikh's holiest gurudwara Golden Temple in Amritsar to flush out the terrorists and other anti-government elements. Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and over 325 people were killed in the temple. Thus a great rebel arose all over the nation and specially in Punjab.
11/10/1992Attorney General G. Ramaswamy, under cloud for his dealings with Standard Chartered Bank, resigns.
4/7/1929England's Imperial Airways had extended its flight to London-Karachi instead of London-Kahira. It was the first commercial air service in undivided India.
3/29/1942Britain offered dominion status to India after the war if it cooperated now.
4/19/1910Anant Laxman Kanhere, revolutionary, was hanged.
9/13/1928Shridhar Pathak, prominent Hindi writer, passed away.
1/5/1952U.S. signs five-year accord to give India $ 50 mil. for economic development in New Delhi.