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Historical Event on 07/08/1497

Vasco De Gama departed with his fleet from Lisbon Harbour for a trip to India .

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/12/1990Vimal Kumar and Madhumita Bisht retain National badminton titles.
6/12/1990CPI(M) accuses Communist Party of Soviet Union of departing from the basic ideology of Marxism-Leninism in the name of correcting past distortions.
10/2/1942Menka Devi, freedom fighter, was arrested by the police when she and her friends were carrying out Gandhi Jayanti procession. She was tortured with cigar butts and the administration set her house on fire.
10/18/1993Mandakini Athvale, first child actor of Indian film industry, died.
6/22/1993JPC draft report raps B. Shankaranand and censures Manmohan Singh.
5/1/1948Baroda State merged into Bombay Province.
10/6/1913V. R. Kant, famous poet, was born.
6/30/1966Judge K. Subba Rao became the Chief Justice of India. He held this office till 11/04/1967.
12/5/1931Jayant G. Nadkarni, former Admiral of Indian Navy, was born.
2/19/1992An all-time low turn out of about 30\% registered in the Punjab Assembly polls.