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Historical Event on 8/7/1999

A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, appeals to the United States to name Pakistan as a terrorist state.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/21/1966Mihir Sen swam the Bay of Persia.
4/28/1974Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta, famous economist, politician and journalist, passed away.
9/6/1995New broad gauge train ""Palace on Wheels"" started between Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.
9/30/199724th Stock Exchange of India set up at Trivandrum.
8/15/1982Doordarshan's national programme and the first nationwide colour transmission started by Delhi Doordarshan.
10/1/1995Aditya Birla, famous industrialist, died.
6/18/1917Lachhmansingh Gill, famous politician and former chief minister, was born.
11/23/1926Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian plant physiologist and physicist, passed away. He investigated the properties of very short radio waves, wireless telegraphy and radiation-induced fatigue in inorganic materials. His physiological work involved comparative measurements of the responses of plants exposed to stress. His invention of highly sensitive instruments for the detection of minute responses by living organisms to external stimuli enabled him to anticipate the parallelism between animal and plant tissues noted by later bio-physicists.รก
11/28/1998The Congress(I) wins the Assembly elections in Delhi, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.
9/3/1979M. M. Bhatnagar was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 14-06-1985.