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Historical Event on 11/8/1960
Subroto Mukherjee died while having dinner in Tokyo, where he had gone with the Air India International Airlines which made its first inaugural flight to the city of Tokyo, Japan.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/11/1921 | Snehlata, social reformer and politician, was born at Mathura, U.P. |
| 6/21/1862 | Ganendra Mohan Tagore was the first Indian to get the Barrister-at-Law Degree after passing the examination from Lincoln Inn University. |
| 12/21/2000 | Central Zone and South Zone are declared joint winners after the game ends in a tie in the final of the Deodhar Trophy one day cricket tournament in Lucknow. |
| 4/1/1992 | The 79,698 crore Eighth Plan launched. |
| 1/25/1950 | The post of the Governor General of India was abolished. |
| 5/15/1992 | Harshad Mehta suspended. |
| 3/27/1977 | The government revoked the national Emergency promulgated on Dec. 3, 1971. |
| 11/28/1993 | JRD Tata, 89, passed away in Geneva. |
| 2/18/1993 | Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"". |
| 1/31/1958 | First Earth Satellite Explorer I was launched from Cape Kennedy. |
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