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Historical Event on 5/8/1971

Mohinder Singh Gill at Fresno sets record for TJ in 16.79.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/16/1893Karumuttu Thiagarajan Chettiar, social worker and industrialist, was born at Athikkadu Thekkur in Tamil Nadu.
3/21/1997Seven Kashmiri Pandits gunned down by militants in Sangrampura.
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.
7/21/1947Indian Constitution Assembly accepted the tricolour flag as its National Flag. This flag is with three equal horizontal stripes of Saffron (Sacrifice), White (Truth) and Green (Prosperity) and a Chakra is superimposed on white (Dharma Chakra on the capitol of Ashoka's Pillar at Sarnath) in blue colour having 24 spokes. The ratio of the width to length is two to three.
12/22/1998The Patents Bill gets Rajya Sabha approval.
6/24/1908Gopinath, famous Kathakali dancer, was born.
4/28/1993Troops storm police complex in Srinagar and free officials from the rebelling 2000 policemen.
7/22/1959Ananth Kumar was born in Banglore. He is a Minister in Vajpayee's Government.
5/25/1961Woorkeri Venkar Raman, left-hand batsman and slow-spin bowler, was born in Madras.
2/20/1999India and Pakistan signed a formal agreement for launching the Delhi-Lahore bus service.