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Historical Event on 8/7/1986

Lok Sabha passes Constitution 53rd Amendment bill conferring statehood on Mizoram.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/8/1991Hostage ONGC engineer T.S. Raju and mediator Bipul Mahanta, an Amnesty International member, killed by ULFA in Assam.
2/8/1994Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432.
2/8/1994Sultan Ghiyasu'd-din Tughluq Shah, emperor of Delhi, passed away.
7/7/1948Damodar Valley Corporation, first public corporation, was established.
6/18/1997E.K. Nayanar, Kerala Chief Minister, meets Pope John Paul II in Vatican.
4/1/1986Delhi beat Haryana by innings and 141 runs to win the Ranji Trophy.
6/8/1948Malabar Princess', Air India's first international flight, takes off from Bombay to London via Cairo and Geneva. This was weekly air service was started between India to United Kingdom.
6/19/1947Salman Rushdie, English writer, was born in Bombay.
5/13/1995Renowned environmentalist Maurice F. Strong chosen for the Jawaharlal Nehru International Understanding awarded for 1992.
9/12/1912T. A. Ramachandran, cricket Test Umpire of one test during 1948-49, was born in Tamil Nadu.