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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
5/1/1997Abhijit Kunte wins National `A' chess championshop for men.
5/8/1815Malaun of Nepal was captured by General David Ochterlony.
11/6/1950King Tribhuvana of Nepal flees to India.
10/21/1989Sukhdev Singh alias Sukha and Harminder Singh alias Jinda sentenced to death for the murder of former Army Chief Gen. A. K. Vaidya.
6/7/1965Ashutosh Kali, great revolutionary, passed away.
11/5/1961Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru arrived in New York. This was the first ocassion when an Indian Prime Minister went to United States.
4/2/1933Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji ""Ranji"", Maharaj, jamsaheb of Nawanagar and noted cricketer, passed away. He was referred as ""The prince of a little state, but the King of a great game"". He scored 989 Test runs with a 1st-class avg. 56.
7/20/1993British parliament ratifies the Indo-British extradition treaty.
9/10/1976An Indian Airlines Boeing 737 aeroplane was hijacked for the second time and taken to Lahore, Pakistan.
12/3/1971During the ensuing melee, three of the Sabres were shot down while all Gnats returning to base were unscathed. The first blood of a new Indo-Pakistan air war had been drawn. Other encounters were to follow over the next 10 days within both Indian and Pakistani airspace, before a full-scale war began.