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Historical Event on 8/7/1998
The Government announces a banking and foreign exchange package for development of the information technology and software industry following the recommendations of the National Task Force.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/1/1947 | India all out for 58 vs Australia at Gabba. |
| 1/12/1990 | Upper age limit for Civil Services Examination raised from 26 to 28 years. |
| 9/29/1725 | Robert Clive, one of the founders of British empire in India and diplomat, was born. |
| 10/6/1893 | Meghnad N. Saha, astrophysicist, was born. In 1920, he developed the 'Thermal Ionization Equation', which has remained fundamental in all works on stellar atmospheres. This equation has been widely applied to the interpretation of stellar spectra, which are characteristic of the chemical composition of the light source. |
| 2/10/1946 | Gandhiji revives 'Harijan' and allied group of weekly journals. |
| 4/28/1943 | Netaji Subash Chandra Bose aligned the Japanese-German submarine at Medagaskar. |
| 4/5/1922 | Pandita Ramabai, social worker and philosophist, passed away. |
| 4/5/1922 | Vasco De Gama, Portuguese navigator who discovered India, died in Cochin. |
| 5/31/1921 | Suresh Hariprasad Joshi, modern Gujarati poet, story writer and critic, was born. |
| 10/30/1928 | Madhav Vinayak Gothoskar, cricket Test umpire for 14 tests from 1972-84, was born in Mumbai. |
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