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Historical Event on 7/8/1988

More than 100 people were killed and several injured as Bangalore-Trivandrum Island Express fell into Ashtamudi lake at Perumon in Quilon district of Kerala.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/19/1938Jayant Vishnu Narlikar, great Indian space scientist and mathematician, was born at Kolhapur, Maharashtra.
9/28/1984First floodlights lit ODI between India and Australia held outside of Australia at New Delhi.
4/23/1930Riots break out in Peshawar; 20 Indians shot down after killing of three Britishers.
7/30/1993CBI arrests Bhupen Dalal and three other brokers for cheating of LIC Mutual Funds involving Rs.173 crore.
10/2/1982Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh, former Finance minister of India, died.
7/8/1918Montagu - Chelmsford Report was published. This report was prepared to reform the legislature of India. This report was made by Edwin Montagu who was the Secretary of States for India and Lord Chelmsford, who was the Viceroy.
1/27/1994Union Cabinet approves inclusion of the land reforms laws in the 9th Schedule of the Constitution.
2/3/1986Pope John Paul II meets Mother Teresa at Calcutta.
7/21/1975Hindi Post Guards was established by Government.
8/4/1935Government of India got the Royal Assent Act 1935.