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Historical Event on 8/8/1923
Floods on the Ganges and Jumna rivers cause loss of life in Benares, India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/12/1922 | Chandradhar Sharma Guleri passed away. |
| 7/23/1856 | Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak was born on July 23rd, 1856 |
| 1/18/1936 | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), famous English writer and author, died in Burwash, England at 70. He was a young journalist in British India. He wrote in verses, stories, novels childen's stories some of these were ""The Jungle Book, Kim and Just-50 stories"" and was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 for 'Kim' (Indian based story). |
| 1/18/1936 | Akbar, great Mughal Emperor, won Kabul. |
| 7/30/1992 | The Supreme Court declares that capitation fee in educational institutions is unlawful. |
| 11/14/1955 | Employees' State Insurance Corporation was inaugurated by the President. |
| 4/29/1997 | R. N. Malhotra, 71, former RBI Governor, died. |
| 12/3/1991 | Satinder Kumar Lamba appointed India's Ambassador to Pakistan. |
| 12/23/1976 | Indira Gandhi attacks the pro-Moscow Communist party for enticing her son Sanjay, but she denies grooming him as her successor. |
| 8/15/1947 | Lord Louis Mountbatten took charge as the first British Governor General of Indian Union and occupied this office till June 20, 1948. |
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