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Historical Event on 7/8/1996

T.N. Seshan, Chief Election Commissioner, wins Magsaysay award.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/20/1989Pakistan win Sharjah Trophy over West Indies and India.
9/26/1931At Lancashire, Gandhi sees textile workers hurt by Indian boycott but says home spinning must go on.
4/6/1919Mahatma Gandhi declared an All India Strike against the Rollatt Act .This was the first strike.
9/29/2000A special court convicted former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and his then cabinet colleague Buta Singh in the JMM MPs' bribery case. Nine others got benefit of doubt.
3/29/1932Sundaram Gundibalirama, right-hand batsman and right-arm medium fast bowler, was born at Udipi in Karnataka.
7/12/1947Pochiah Krishnamurthy, great Indian cricket wicket-keeper (1971 WI tour), was born in Hyderabad.
6/2/1955A British party scales the third highest peak Mt. Kanchenjunga, highest unclimbed peak.
2/14/1996President dedicates 55,000-seated Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium at Kochi to the nation.
7/7/1999M.L. Jaisimha, former Indian Test cricketer, died in Hyderabad.
5/19/1911K.N. Vaswani, educationist and Journalist, was born at Hyderabad, Sind.