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Historical Event on 2/8/1989

Mrs. Gro Harlem Brundtland, PM of Norway, was awarded 1988 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/31/1988Treaty signed between India and Pakistan for not to target nuclear sites of each other.
3/21/1971Gavaskar scores the first of his 34 Test tons, 116 at Georgetown.
2/23/1997176 people dead and 500 injured in a major fire at a religious congregation in Baripada, Orissa.
3/19/1997BJP and BSP agree for a coalition government in Uttar Pradesh.
3/17/1957New Central Cabinet under J. L. Nehru sworn in.
12/7/2000A five-member ULFA group guns down 26 non-Assamese people, mostly Hindi and Bengali-speaking, at Sonpura near Arunachal Pradesh Border in Upper Assam.
1/23/199750,000 miners in Orissa lose jobs as 57 mines are closed down.
3/23/1986The first women's company of Central Reserve Police Force camp was raised in Durgapur.
12/26/1914Dr. Shushila Nair, social reformer, was born in village Kunjah, district Gunjra, Punjab (now Pakistan). She dedicated her life to serve Gandhiji and Gandhi Ashram and also performed the duties of Indian citizen by taking active participation in freedom movement.
8/10/1989Panchayatraj' and 'Nagarpalika' bills were passed in Parliament's Lok Sabha.