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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
8/27/1990The Cabinet Committee on political affairs decides to put a proposal before the Parliament providing five to ten per cent of Central Government jobs reserved for economically weaker sections.
4/16/2000India wins the second leg of the pre-olympic hockey tournament at Perth.
9/9/1920Anglo Oriental College of Aligargh became Aligarh Muslim University. It was the first university to use the regional language.
11/18/1972Tiger was adopted as India's 'National Animal'
7/29/1988Syed Modi, 28-year national badminton champion, was shot dead at K. D. Singh Stadium in Lucknow.
1/23/1919Govindagraj (Ram Ganesh Gadkari), great Marathi drama writer, comedy writer and poet, passed away.
12/22/1992Lok Sabha adopts the constitution amendment bills regarding Panchayati Raj and Nagarapalika Bills, and decentralisation of power to the village level.
2/24/1922Kanwar Rai Singh, cricketer (batted at MCG Test for India 1948), was born in Darkati, Punjab.
3/22/1947India's Last Viceroy Lord Louise Mountbatten came to India.
2/10/1949Pune University' established.