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Historical Event on 2/8/1986
For the first time in the country, pre-paid taxi sevice scheme was established at New Delhi airport.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/25/1971 | Himachal Pradesh High Court was established at Shimla for Himachal Pradesh Territory. |
| 12/11/1999 | Gopalakrishna Gandhi, former High Commissioner to South Africa, is conferred the honorary doctorate by the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa. |
| 9/19/1962 | Jawaharlal Nehru was devastated when China began attacks on India's northern frontier leading to Indo-China War. |
| 11/21/1921 | Prince of Wales visited India and Congress observed all India strike. |
| 5/8/1994 | Harikant Jethwani, famous Sindhi litterateur, passed away. |
| 5/8/1994 | Babur reached to his capital Agra after winning Bengal. |
| 5/8/1994 | The Sultan, losing his hold over the army and some members of his aristocracy, very wisely abdicated in favour of his brother Ahmad, who is famous in Deccan history as Ahmad Shah Wali. |
| 11/1/1974 | Vangipurappu Venkata Sai Laxman, cricketer (Indian Test batsman v S Africa 1996 ), was born in Hyderabad. |
| 10/1/1997 | Ordinance promulgated to ban single digit or instant lotteries. |
| 8/18/1995 | Parvati Giri, also called the Little Mother Teresa, died in Orissa. She was 69. She was a social worker and had taken part during the Quit India movement. |
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