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Historical Event on 7/8/1996

U.N. says India is leading in HIV infections.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/11/1999Atal Behari Vajpayee is appointed Prime Minister. Two-tier ministry likely.
2/27/1803Great fire in Bombay.
10/14/1998Prof. Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. He became the sixth Indian, by birth or citizenship, to win a Nobel.
12/31/1923Vishnu Dayal Jhunjhunwala, great industrialist, was born at Kanpur.
7/23/1996India's admission to Asian Regional Forum was endorsed by Foreign Ministers of the group at Jakarta.
7/31/1990Charan Singh Rathi at New Delhi sets record for 20 km W. in 1.25.48\_\_.
4/5/1989Pannalal Patel, great Gujrati litterateur, died.
11/7/1862Bahadurshah Jafar -II died at Rangoon in British prision.
2/14/1922Bhimsen Joshi, great singer and composer, was born.
6/15/1991About 50% of the 180.3 million electorate cast their votes in the final phase of Lok Sabha elections.