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Historical Event on 11/8/1999

The Government announces waiver of telephone bills up to Rs. 1000 in the rural areas of cyclone-hit Orissa.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/30/1999Services regained team title in the national boxing championship in Visakhapatnam.
11/29/1644The Massachusetts General Court issued a call for local pastors to learn the dialects of neighboring Indian tribes as an aid toward converting them to the Christian faith.
3/1/1996Supreme Court frees CBI from the control of PM Rao and directs that CBI would take no instruction or permission from or report to any authority personally interested in or likely to be affected by the investigation into the hawala case.
8/28/1973India and Pakistan signed P.O.W Accord paving way for release of 90,000 Pakistanis.
9/21/1997Mahesh Bhupathi wins a cliff-hanger as India clinches Davis Cup World Group play-off tie against Chile 3-2 in Delhi.
7/1/1961Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian women astronaut (STS 87), was born in Karnal.
2/14/1989Supreme Court orders Union Carbide Coporation of USA and Union Carbide India Limited to pay $470 millions (about Rs. 710 crores) in full and final settlement of all claims out of the Bhopal gas Disaster Litigation tragedy of 1985.
4/9/1984Captain H.J. Singh of Indian Army crossed the Banihal Darsh with the help of Hand Glider and set a new record.
3/11/1824US War Dept creates the Bureau of Indian Affair.
7/24/1997Country's highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna conferred on former interim Prime Minister Gulzarilal Nanda and posthumously on freedom-fighter Aruna Asaf Ali.