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Historical Event on 2/8/1971
Indira Congress wins the mid-term elections for Lok Sabha. Indira Gandhi becomes PM.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/3/1970 | Chonira Beliappa Muthamma, first women career diplomat, appointed ambassador to Hungary. |
| 9/17/1954 | India outlaws bigamy. |
| 5/21/1991 | Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minster (1984-91), assassinated by human bomb explosion plotted by LTTE at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu, 40 km from Madras, at 10.20 P.M. |
| 6/24/1966 | Bombay-New York Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die. |
| 2/16/1932 | Sibnath Banerjee, trade union movement leader, passed away. He founded several organisation like Congress Socialist Party, A.I.T.U.C. and Hind Mazdoor Sabha, etc. |
| 6/27/1999 | India won the four-nation under-21 women's hockey title, defeating England in the final at the Kean University, New Jersey. |
| 6/27/1999 | Firuz Shah captured the throne of Delhi and Sultan Jalal'ud-din Khalji called himself. |
| 3/28/1916 | Ramkrishna Pillai, journalist and social reformer, passed away. |
| 6/9/1992 | Rajesh Khanna (Congress-I) defeats Shatrughan Sinha to wrest the New Delhi Lok Sabha seat from the BJP. |
| 7/2/1999 | In Jammu and Kashmir, nine people are killed by unidentified militants. |
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