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Historical Event on 2/8/1986
Sister Alphonsa was beatified by his Holiness Pope John-ll at Kottayam. She was the first woman from India to be raised to this honour. (19-7-96).

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4/8/1923	Plague in India killed 1,000 in past week.
11/24/1926	Aurobindo Ghose, former I.C.S. and revolutionary, attained full enlightenment I.e 'Purna Siddhi'.
6/24/1966	Atul Chandrakant Bedade, cricketer (Indian ODI batsman from 1994), was born in Bombay.
2/15/1993	India regains ""Rubber"" after 6 years by beating England by an innings and 70 runs at Madras.
4/23/1959	Peking Radio reports say that Chinese troops defeated rebels in south-eastern Tibet and have closed Tibet's borders with India and Burma.
10/3/1984	India's longest distance train Himsagar Express (from Jammu Tavi to Kanya Kumari) was first flagged.
1/29/1979	Tamil Nadu Expess, India's first Jumbo passenger train, was flagged off from New Delhi Railway Station for Madras.
6/24/1990	Defence scientists successfully test fired country's first third generation anti-tank missile 'NAG'.
4/14/1990	J&K Assembly dissolved.
11/22/1999	A.B.Vajpayee, Prime Minister, expands cabinet as four more ministers join the ministry including Arun Shourie.

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Historical Event on 2/8/1986 Sister Alphonsa was beatified by his Holiness Pope John-ll at Kottayam. She was the first woman from India to be raised to this honour. (19-7-96).

Historical Event on 2/8/1986
Sister Alphonsa was beatified by his Holiness Pope John-ll at Kottayam. She was the first woman from India to be raised to this honour. (19-7-96).