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Historical Event on 8/7/1999

A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, appeals to the United States to name Pakistan as a terrorist state.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/7/1905Indian National Congress declared to boycott the British goods for the first time against Bengal partition, and also advocated to buy ' Swadeshi.
5/1/1987The Bofors Deal.
9/10/1918Muslim riots break out in Calcutta.
12/26/1997Four MPs - Mr. Suresh Kalmadi from Pune, Mr. Anadi Charan Sahu from Cuttack, Mr. Mohan Delkar from Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Mr. Gopal Tandel from Daman & Diu- resign from Congress(I).
4/20/1973Rioting over food shortages ends after three days in Nagpur.
2/13/1936Dinsha Wachha, great Industrialist and social worker, passed away at Mumbai.
10/16/1905Bengal was partitioned by Lord Curzon on the pretext of it being too big to administer. Instead of dividing it on the basis of non-Bengali areas, the division was on the basis of Hindus and Muslims. Britishers thought that would succeed in increasing Hindu - Muslim tensions. The tremor of partition was felt throughout India and was regarded as an insult and challenge to Indian Nationalism. A movement was launched by the moderates. New method of protests 'Swadeshi and Swaraj' became the slogan of the common man and the whole of India was drawn into the national movement.
1/22/1899Dilipkumar Roy, classical musician, was born.
10/15/1996Dengue fever in Delhi takes 156 lives.
6/9/1986First AIDS death reported from a private hospital in Mumbai.