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Historical Event on 8/1/1996
Madhu Dandavate is made Dy. Chairman, Planning Commission.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/15/1861 | Dr. Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, famous architect, engineer and a diplomat, also a Bharat Ratna awardee, was born at Chickballapur in Mysore (Karnataka) in a poor Brahmin family. |
| 1/4/1993 | K. Margabandhu, former UCO Bank chief, was arrested on charges of amassing wealth beyond his means. |
| 1/24/1997 | Public holiday in connection with Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose birth centenary. |
| 10/31/1999 | Shankar Dayal Sharma, former President, is conferred with the Indira Gandhi Award. |
| 8/9/1970 | Trailokyanath Chakravarty died in Delhi. |
| 5/30/1977 | Express Train fell into Beki river in Assam killing 44 persons. |
| 12/8/1970 | Army Ordnance Corps was awarded the 'Colours' by the Vice President of India, Shri G S Pathak, at AOC Centre, Secunderabad. The Ordnance colour is a scarlet silken flag with the Ordnance crest in the center and surrounding it is a wreath of Ashoka Leaves and Lotus flowers. |
| 5/30/1950 | Devdutta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar, great historian and archaeologist, passed away. |
| 3/10/2000 | Nirmal Verma, distinguished Hindi writer, and eminent Punjabi novelist Gurchal Singh selected jointly for the 35th Jnanpith Award for 1999. |
| 1/27/1931 | Mahatma Gandhi was released from jail, ending eight months of imprisonment for his campaign of civil disobedience against British rule. To avoid demonstrations, Gandhi was released late in the evening from the Yerovda jail and put on a night train to Bombay. There was hope in British circles that the release of Gandhi would end the strife and lead to discussions of dominion status. Gandhi made clear, however, that he would persist in his civil disobedience campaign. |
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