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Historical Event on 2/8/1986
For the first time in the country, pre-paid taxi sevice scheme was established at New Delhi airport.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/13/1999 | Janata Dal (United) snap ties with the BJP in Karnataka |
| 3/18/1948 | Eknath Dhondu Solkar, cricketer (India 1969-77, brilliant short-leg fielder), was born in Bombay. He is recipient of Arjun Award (1973). |
| 1/10/1987 | Sikh terrorists murder Punjab prison chief in Chandigarh. |
| 5/9/1995 | Militants set Charar township on fire in the vicinity of the Charar-e-Sherif shrine. More than 1,000 houses burnt. |
| 7/1/1996 | RBI reduces cash reserve ratio to 12\%. |
| 9/18/1924 | Mahatma Gandhi was to fast for 21 days in despair of the recent riots between Muslims and Hindus. It was an expression of his 'unbearable hopelessnes'. ""Nothing I say or write,"" he said, ""can bring the two communities together."" Even as he spoke there were reports of further riots at Kohat, in which 20 Hindus and 11 Muslims were killed. Reservations, Gandhi speaking in Allahabad said, reserved the right to drink water with or without salt. ""It is both a penance and a prayer. As it is penance I need not have taken the public into my confidence but I publish it as, let me hope, an effective prayer to Hindus and Muslims, not to commit suicide"". |
| 6/29/1864 | Dr. Asutosh Mukherjee, great judge, educationist and lawyer of Bengal, was born at Calcutta. |
| 8/17/1992 | 20 members of the Janata Dal led by Ajit Singh break away from the parent body seeking separate seats in the Lok Sabha. |
| 7/20/1903 | British to increase size of Royal Army in India. |
| 10/30/1947 | The government rejects Kashmir's decision to join India in Pakistan. |
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