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Historical Event on 5/8/1997
Mumbai High Court holds that Christian women can seek divorce on the sole ground of being subjected to cruelty and need not prove infedidelity on the part of their husbands or desertion.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/25/1993 | Mahadevan, SBI MD, sacked in the wake of his role in the securities scam. |
| 7/6/1935 | Dalai Lama, the 14th incarnate and religious leader of Tibet, was born. He was born to Tenzin Gyotso (His Holiness the VIVth Dalai Lama) in Taksten Village, Chhija Nangso, Tibet. He was awarded with Nobel Prize for Peace in 1989. |
| 2/9/1991 | India holds the last decennial census of the century. |
| 7/19/1955 | Roger Michael Humphery Binny, Indian medium-pace all-rounder early eighties, was born at Bangalore. |
| 9/1/1913 | Snehangshu Kanta Acharya, politician, social reformer, lawyer and athelete, was born. |
| 6/6/1907 | John Morley, U.K. Government State Secretary, declares ""it will not withdraw from India under any circumstances"". |
| 4/5/1663 | Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj attacked Shahistekhan at Pune. |
| 2/7/1856 | Wajid Ali Shah, ruler of Oudh, was asked to abdicate by the British Resident on grounds of chronic misrule. |
| 3/21/1996 | PSLV-D3 launched successfully. |
| 6/8/1997 | Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, Assam Chief Minister, has a narrow escape as a powerful remote-controlled bomb exploded in Maligaon area of Guwahati. |
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