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Historical Event on 8/1/1997

Nitin Mongia wins Laser standard in sailing championship in Hyderabad.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/18/1991Kerala declared the first fully literate state in the country.
9/12/1993Former Chief Minister of Gujarat Hitendra Desai died.
1/2/1990Capt. Nivedita Bhasin, 26, becomes the youngest woman pilot in world civil aviation history to command a jet aircraft.
6/4/1997Fourth Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1D), carring advanced remote sensing cameras launched by India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-1D), in service.
6/14/1886Orphanage for little girls was established.
6/20/1911Dattatray Purushottam Karmarkar, veteran freedom fighter and former cabinet minister, died.
9/18/1992Andhra government's order of setting up 12 private medical colleges quashed by a full bench of the High Court.
9/18/1992Rana Sangram Singh, King of Mewad, attacked on Mughal Emperor Babur near Kanwa at Agra.
11/11/1921Gandhi urges Hindus to remove statue of ex-Viceroy Lord Lawrence.
1/12/1955Pandit Baburao Vishnu Paradkar, eminent Hindi editor and veteran journalist, passed away.