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Historical Event on 8/7/1988

N. T. Ramarao elected chairman and V.P. Singh the convenor of the National Front.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/30/1909Kirpal Prem Nath, educationist, was born at Moga (Punjab).
3/1/1939Satish Kumar Sareen was born in Rawalpindi (now in Pakistan). He became the Air Chief Marshal.
11/29/1947The Nizam of Hyderabad said that he would not consider acceding to either dominion, but would agree to a 'standstill arrangement' with India. The agreement is accepted by the Indian government.
7/1/1996RBI reduces cash reserve ratio to 12\%.
6/23/1958Tamil leaders in Madras call on Nehru to lobby for better treatment of Ceylon's Tamil minority.
2/15/1948Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, famous Hindi poet, political agitator, critic and freedom fighter, passed away near Seoni, Madhya Pradesh, in an automobile accident.
11/24/1941Attack on Pearl Harbour.
1/2/1973General S. H. F. J. Manekshaw appointed as Field Marshall.
1/11/1955Production of Newsprint paper factory started for the first time in India.
4/4/1938A. M. Chakrabarty was born in Sainthia at West Bengal. He found that under the optimum conditions of time, temperature and nutrients the Hydrocarbon-eating "qualities'' of four diffrent strains of bacteria could be transferred into one. He also showed that this super-strain of bacteria reproduces itself.