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Historical Event on 7/8/1954
Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, inaugurated world's longest Bhakra-Nangal Dam canal at Punjab.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/26/1923 | Mukeshchandra Mathur, famous playback singer, was born. |
| 1/1/1920 | Seth Darbari Shah, great industrialist, was born in Ikhlas. |
| 4/11/1931 | Mahendranath Yeshwant Gupte, cricket test umpire for 1 test in 1984-85, was born at Mumbai. |
| 7/7/1973 | 78 drowned as flash flood sweeped a bus into a river (India). |
| 5/27/1957 | Copyright Act was passed. |
| 1/1/1989 | This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Year of the Young Reader"". |
| 1/1/1989 | Khidr Khan Syed, Governor of Lahore, replaced Daulat Khan Lodi on Delhi's throne. |
| 4/8/1923 | Plague in India killed 1,000 in past week. |
| 7/16/1992 | Amar Varma, Hindi author, producer and director, died. |
| 12/12/1971 | The first aerial victory was when MiG-21FLs of No. 47 Squadron shot down a PAF F-104 over the Gulf of Kutch and this was followed by three more victories in quick succession on 17 December, when MiG-21FLs of No. 29 Squadron escorting HF-24 Maruts, shot down intercepting F-104s near Uttarlai in the Rajasthan desert in gun-missile encounters, while a third F-104, on an intruding mission, was shot down by another MiG 21FL of No.29 Squadron. |
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