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Historical Event on 2/8/1986

For the first time in the country, pre-paid taxi sevice scheme was established at New Delhi airport.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/5/1909Dwijhans Kalika Prasad Dixit, great poet and educationist, was born at Gram Dedani in Uttar Pradesh.
5/12/1949S Vijaya Laxmi Pandit, first woman foreign ambassador, was received in US.
12/30/1993Government gets majority when 10 members of Ajit faction of the JD merge with the Congress.
9/4/1996Celebration of Platinum jubilee of B.Y.L. Nair Charitable Hospital and Topiwal National Medical College from 4th September 1995 to 4th September 1996 (CIVIC).
12/4/1990Maharashtra Gomantak Party withdraws support to Goa ministry led by Dr. Luis Proto Barbosa.
12/15/1965Third cyclone of the year kills another 15,000 at mouths of Ganges river.
2/11/1993Andhra Naxalites release four out of six hostages.
10/14/1989Election Commission accepted Shiv Sena as a political party.
9/21/1999Mr. A. C. Muthiah was elected president and Kapil Dev the senior coach at the Board of Control of Cricket in India AGM in Jaipur.
5/28/1978The kiss comes to the Hindi screen in 'Love Sublime,' and is seen as a sign of what the govt. calls greater 'creative freedom,' after Indira Gandhi's authoritarian rule at Bombay.