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Historical Event on 8/8/1972
Olympics open at Munich (26).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/17/1998 | National Human Rights Commission recommends compulsory registration of marriages in a bid to check child marriages. |
| 11/23/1919 | Sitaram Mahadeo Bapat, teacher and author, was born at Miraj in district Sangli. |
| 1/1/1948 | Orissa High Court was established at Cuttack for Orissa territory. |
| 10/1/1926 | Balkanji Bari Institute established for the welfare of children. |
| 7/4/1997 | Centre frees from its control nine top public sector undertakings, accounting for over Rs. 10,000 crore profits annually, to become global giants by providing them full financial and operational autonomy. This included newsprint and paper from licensing controls. |
| 10/15/1990 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Dr. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (b-1918), the South African black nationalist leader who arrived in India on a five-day visit. He is the first non-Asian to get this honour. |
| 7/1/1930 | Vinodkumar C. Gupta, leader in Maharashtra, was born. |
| 7/1/1991 | Rupee devalued by 8.5\%. |
| 9/27/1999 | Harshad Mehta and three others are convicted for misappropriating surplus funds of the Maruti Udyog Ltd. |
| 3/23/1947 | Lord Mountbatten was sent as a Viceroy to India who was designated to free India. |
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