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Historical Event on 7/8/1991

25 tonnes of gold moved to London from India to raise $ 200 million loan.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/16/2000Punjab men, Railway women win the Senior National Volleyball championship in Salem.
5/10/1985P. N. Bhagawati appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
1/29/1948Angry refugees ask Gandhiji to retire to the Himalayas.
6/23/1927All India Radio's broadcasting service started in 1927 by privately owned transmitter at Bombay and Calcutta.
7/14/1636Aurangzeb was appointed as Shahjahan by Viceroy of Deccan.
11/7/2000The BJP firebrand Uma Bharti makes a triumphant return to the Union Ministry as Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs and Arun Jaitley gets elevated as Cabinet Minister in a mini expansion. Maj.Gen. (Retd) B. C. Khanduri takes oath as Minister of State for Transport and Highways.
11/7/2000Akbar's Vajir-E-Ajam 'Bairam Khan' was assassinated at Patan, Gujarat by an Afghan assassin Mubarak Khan Lohani ( whose father was slain by Bairam Khan) in the battle of Machiwara.
5/1/1996Ban imposed (through a Delhi high court judgment) on the film 'Bandit Queen', based on the life of Phoolan Devi, lifted by Supreme Court.
2/15/1936Nabin Chandra Bardoloi, freedom fighter, passed away. He was known for his patriotism and zeal for constructive work and was a forceful and emotional orator and debater and an eminent writer in Assamese litrature. He was also a musician and composed good number of patriotic poems and songs.
10/10/1906Narayan Rasipuram Krishnaswamy, great Indian writer, was born.