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Historical Event on 8/1/1997

Nitin Mongia wins Laser standard in sailing championship in Hyderabad.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/4/2000India deports TULF functionary-turned LTTE supporter M.K. Eelavendhan, a Chennai resident for over a decade.
7/14/1999Arvind Dave is appointed Governor of Arunachal Pradesh.
2/15/1998Tennis duo Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupati were ranked No. 2 when they won Dubai Open.
10/23/1999V. P. Singh, former Prime Minister, tops the list of star witnesses in Bofors case.
11/2/1999BJP suffers jolt in Bihar as it fails to win a single seat it contested in the October 28 poll to four Lok Sabha seats.
8/6/1920Film Censor Board at Bombay started working. The first film censored and granted a Censor Certificate No. 1 was a short film of 600 ft., produced by Gaumont Company and it was titled as 'Gaumont Graphic No. 963-964'. The Regional Film Censor Boards were also set-up in Calcutta, Madras and Rangoon.
2/5/1992Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Dilip Vengsarkar.
1/22/1996Janata Dal parliamentary party leader Sharad Yadav resigns from Lok Sabha membership (Jain hawala case).
5/20/1878Bahameni Sultan Dawood Shah was assassinated.
6/27/1922Vaidyalingam Akhiladam Perunglur, Gyanpeeth awardee and famous Tamil author, was born.