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Historical Event on 9/8/1960
Feroz Gandhi, a prominent member of the Lok Sabha,died in New Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/28/1981 | Madras-Penang undersea cable commissioned. |
| 6/10/1890 | Sunday introduced as a weekly holiday. |
| 6/19/1931 | Nandini Satpathy, politician, was born at Cuttack in Orissa. |
| 9/5/1997 | Mother Teresa, founder of Missionaries of Charity who was awarded with Nobel Prize (1979) and Bharat Ratna, died at the age of 87 due to heart attack late in the evening around 9:30 pm in Calcutta. |
| 2/18/1992 | Vasantrao Karnik, great journalist, passed away. |
| 11/3/1998 | Mamta Banerjee, the TMC leader resigns from Central Coordinating Committee of the BJP and Allies to highlight the issue of spiralling vegetable prices, but Vajpayee refused to accepts the resignation. |
| 1/18/1970 | Kishan Singh at Cuttack sets record for 50 Km W.in 4.19.48. |
| 7/8/1954 | Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, inaugurated world's longest Bhakra-Nangal Dam canal at Punjab. |
| 8/16/1991 | C. Achuta Menon, former CM of Kerala, passed away. |
| 11/6/1913 | Mohandas K. Gandhi, leader of Indian Passive Resistance Movement, was arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa by British troops. |
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