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Historical Event on 2/8/1986
Sister Alphonsa was beatified by his Holiness Pope John-ll at Kottayam. She was the first woman from India to be raised to this honour. (19-7-96).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/14/1854 | Mahendranath Gupt, follower of Ramkrishna Paramahans, was born. |
| 10/24/2000 | Delhi High Court admitted the appeal of former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao against the lower court judgement in the JMM MPs' bribery case. |
| 10/31/1994 | 26 die as cyclone lashes Tamil Nadu. |
| 2/2/1989 | France's highest civilian award, 'Legion d' Honour, conferred upon Satyajit Ray by President Mitterrand at Calcutta. |
| 4/11/1999 | Chetan Baboor and Poulomi Ghatak won the men's and women's titles resp. in the India Cup table tennis in Mumbai. |
| 7/16/1914 | N. E. Balram, communist leader, died. |
| 4/13/1982 | Pandit Parmanand, founder member of `Gather Party', passed away. |
| 6/20/1987 | Dr. Salim Ali, internationally renowned expert of birds, died at Bombay. |
| 5/12/1987 | Britain's HMS Hermes becomes Indian Navy's second aircraft carrier named INS Viraat. |
| 12/16/1980 | Fisher Wealthy Hornsinger, an American social worker and who worked for Adult Education in India, passed away. |
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