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Historical Event on 8/8/1966

India endorses the Partial Nuclear Ban Treaty.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/30/1883Badridas Goenka, famous industrialist, was born.
12/10/1979Mother Teresa wins Nobel Peace prize.
9/10/2000Marat Safin wins the men's singles in the US open championship.
1/19/1982Bombay High Court finds allegations against Chief Minister A. R. Antulay justified. Antulay resigns.
4/2/1992Agajan Baig (Aga), famous Hindi film actor, passed away.
7/1/1906Pulavar Kulandai, great author and poet, was born at Bhavani.
2/6/1996Supreme Court upholds election of CPI (M) leader O. Bharathan to Kerala Assembly from Edakkad (91).
12/8/1911Gaandhiji invites Gokhale to South Africa.
1/17/1905Dattaraya Ramchandra Kaprekar was born at Dahanu near Bombay. He discovered the shortest possible routes to solve mathematical problems. In 1927, he won the wrangler R. P. Paranjpe Mathematical Prize for an Original Piece of work in mathematics. He discovered 'Kaprekar Constant' in 1946. It is the number ""6174"". The constant 6174 is arrived at and this number then generates itself into one set of numbers called ""self numbers"" that is also known by his name. Kaprekar passed away in 1988.
1/19/1960Ramchandra Gopal (Dadasaheb Torne), famous film director, passed away.