7-Dec-day-History

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7-Dec-1782         Hyder Ali, warrior of Mysore, passed away in a camp near Chittur.

7-Dec-1825         First Steam Engine Ship ""Enterprise"" reached Calcutta

7-Dec-1856         First Hindu widow married officially.

7-Dec-1902         Janardhan Gyanoba Navle, cricketer, India's first Test wicket-keeper, was born at Fulgaon, Maharashtra. He played against England at Lord's in 1932.

7-Dec-1979         First International Children's Films Festival was held in Bombay.

7-Dec-1979         Ramandeep Singh Gill, Soccer(Football) player, was born in Oslo, Norway.

7-Dec-1989   Hemananda Biswal sworn in as Orissa Chief Minister.

7-Dec-1993         BJP leaders Advani, Joshi and Kalyan Singh arrested in connection with Ayodhya demolition case.

7-Dec-1993         Lalthanhwala sworn in CM of Mizoram.

7-Dec-1995         Indian, UN Mission in Bosnia & Herzegovina begin (UNMIBH - Dec 95 To Till Date).

7-Dec-1997         Leander Paes awarded 'The Sportstar' award.

7-Dec-1998         A. B. Vajpayee questions Pakistan's decision to hand over part of occupied Kashmir to China and says the area belongs to India.

7-Dec-1999         Nareshwar Dayal is appointed India's High Commissioner to UK.

7-Dec-1999         A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, rejects the Opposition demand for resignation of three Central Ministers L. K. Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharati in the Ayodhya case.

7-Dec-2000         A five-member ULFA group guns down 26 non-Assamese people, mostly Hindi and Bengali-speaking, at Sonpura near Arunachal Pradesh Border in Upper Assam.