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Historical Event on 8/7/1980

Mother Teresa visits the poor in Bronx at New York.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/1/1969India's first Atomic Energy Reactor started at Tarapore.
4/3/1932Boycott of British goods was so widespread that 70\% of cotton products were now thought to have come from Japan.
8/21/1986Nine-member Cong-MNF coalition ministry headed by MNF President Laldenga sworn-in in Aizawl.
8/15/1949Chandernagore joins the Indian Union. Panchayati Raj inaugurated in 114,000 villages.
11/10/1848Surendranath Banerji, popularly known as Rashtraguru, was born at Taltala, Calcutta. He passed his final ICS Examination in 1869 and joined in 1871, He was President of the Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad.
11/10/1848Francisco de Almeida, Viceroy of Protuguese India, passed away in a battle.
7/3/1751Pilaji Jadhav died.
3/16/1977Sixth General Election of India begins.
10/16/1971David Jude Johnson, cricketer (Karnataka fast bowler, India 1996), was born in Arasikere.
2/18/1931Swraj Paul, Indian and British industrialist and multi-millionaire (Caparo), was born.