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Historical Event on 8/8/1990
Naval Godrej, famous Industrialist, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/22/1919 | Girijakumar Mathur, famous modern Hindi poet, was born. |
| 11/23/1997 | Nirad C.Chaudhuri, famous author, completed 100 years of his life. |
| 9/26/1793 | Rani Rashmoni, great nationalist and social worker, was born in Kona village, 24 Parganas (north), West Bengal. |
| 1/26/1988 | A Post Office was established at Dakshin Gangotri under the Goa Postal Division. (11-7-89). |
| 2/20/1982 | The Kangla Tongbi war memorial built for 221 members of Advance Base Depot, who laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks, was finally shifted to College of Materials Management Jabalpur. The original memorial was erected on 15 Apr 1946 from local stone and the main epitaph displayed above is of black Naga stone. |
| 11/15/1817 | Battle of Yerwada. |
| 2/14/1925 | Mohan Dhariya, politician and nature lover, was born. |
| 1/25/1992 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata (1904-1993). |
| 12/28/2000 | The Kanchi Acharya presents the Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati national eminence awards to former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao, Smt. M.S. Subbulakshmi (in absentia), scientist Ramnarayan Agarwal and pravachan artist Rameshbhai Ojha. |
| 12/11/1845 | First battle between Britishers and Sikhs. In 1849, Punjab lost its independence. This is referred as the first Anglo-Sikh War. |
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