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Historical Event on 8/5/1965
Jaya Prakash Narayan was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for public service.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/1/1994 | Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. |
| 7/18/1987 | Amitabh Bachhan resigns his Lok Sabha membership. |
| 11/22/1773 | Robert Clive, English occupier (India), passed away at the age of 48. |
| 2/8/1785 | Warren Hastings, British Viceroy, left India. |
| 2/2/1915 | Khushvant Singh, famous journalist, was born. |
| 6/1/1842 | Satyendranath Tagore, Bengali officer and litterateur, was born. |
| 4/24/1998 | 24 persons are killed and 28 injured when some bogies of a goods train break free and roll back to collide with the stationary Manmad-Kacheguda Express at Parli Vaijnath in Maharashtra. |
| 3/18/1990 | Devi Lal, Deputy PM, withdraws his resignation. |
| 10/31/2000 | The Income Tax Department 'indicts' five cricketers - Kapil Dev, Ajay Jadeja, Manoj Prabhakar, Nikhil Chopra and Ajay Sharma - for tax evasion and concealment of income earned through ""dubious sources' |
| 5/20/1932 | Bipinchandra Ramchandra Pal, powerful journalist and revolutionary freedom fighter, passed away. He was amongst the trio which was known as ""Lal - Bal - Pal"" during the freedom struggle. He started a newspaper called ""Swaraj"" for the Indians in England. He also edited several other newspapers like ""Tribune"", ""New India"", ""Vande Mataram"", ""Swaraj"", ""Hindu Review"", ""Democrat"", ""Independent Bengali"", etc. |
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