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Historical Event on 8/8/1972
Olympics open at Munich (26).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/8/1972 | Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)-I, Portuguese navigator, arrived in India. He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to Calicut, Kerala with three vessels and was the first Westerner to sail to India from Europe. |
| 2/23/1997 | Successful test firing of the 250-km version of the Prithvi missile. |
| 7/12/1864 | Vishvanath Kashinath Rajwade, great Historian, was born. |
| 12/3/1979 | Dhyan Chand, famous master of Hockey and Padma Bhushan awardee, passed away. |
| 11/15/1982 | Acharya Vinoba Bhave, great freedom fighter and social reformer, died (88 years) in Pawnar Ashram at Wardha near Nagpur, Maharashtra. |
| 10/4/1999 | Kerala High Court orders Election Commission to booth-wise counting. The EC is likely to move the Supreme Court against this order. |
| 7/21/1930 | Anand Bakshi, famous lyrisist, was born. |
| 6/13/1991 | Shiv Sharma, Doordarshan Director General, was shot at in Delhi by suspected Punjab terrorists. |
| 7/8/1999 | The bodies of 12 soldiers, who martyred in Kargil battle, were brought to New Delhi. So far 321 soldiers were killed and 476 wounded in operation Vijay. |
| 8/26/2000 | Vijay Kumar wins the Hindu Open Golf championship at the Cosmopolitan Club in Chennai. |
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