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Historical Event on 12/8/1980

Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev visits New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/27/1929Jawaharlal Nehru hoists the national flag at the All India National Congress session held in Lahore. They resolved for ""Purna Swaraj"" (complete independence) on the instance of Gandhiji, the Viceroy of India that time was Lord Irwin.
5/21/1999A powerful bomb explodes and another is defused on the road leading to the Imphal airport minutes before the Prime Minister landed to commence his two-day visit to the State.
4/11/199710-month-old Deve Gowde govt. at the centre voted out of power. 292 voting against the motion of confidence in Lok Sabha, 158 for it, 6 abstaining.
9/16/1997Rajeev Balakrishnan sets 100m national mark in the ITC International Athletics meet.
2/23/1908Maharaj Kumar Raghubir Sinh, famous Hindi writer and historian, was born.
7/27/199511 Cong-I and National Conference activists were gunned down in J&K after they were abducted from their homes.
6/23/1994Two Britishers held hostage by terrorists in Kashmir for 17 days were set free.
3/12/1997aspal Rana equals world mark in standard pistol 25m (ISU) event in South Asian shooting in Delhi.
1/31/1949Maharajas of Baroda and Kolhapur decide to merge their states with Bombay.
1/26/1927Laxman Madhav Katre, former Indian Air Chief Marshall, was born.