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Historical Event on 1/8/1995
Madhu Limaye, veteran national leader, socialist thinker, freedom fighter, politician, writer, close associate of Ram Manohar Lohia and Jaya Prakash Narayan, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/14/1997 | N. V. N. Somu, Union Minister of State for Defence and president of The Hindu Office and National Press Employees Union from 1969, died in Army Helicopter crash at Tezpur in Arunachal Pradesh. |
| 3/28/1998 | The BJP-led alliance survived its first test of trust with the support of Chandrababu Naidu's Telgu Desam Party. Jayalalitha continues to call the shots. |
| 6/13/1995 | India and France sign Bilateral Investment Protection pact. |
| 1/23/2000 | India will be taught a lesson if it tries to cross the LoC, says the Pakistani military ruler, Gen. Pervez Musharraf. |
| 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. |
| 11/6/1904 | Hariharnath Shastri, worker's leader, was born. |
| 5/5/1903 | Tirupur Subramaniam Avinashilingam Chettiar, freedom fighter, educationist and politician, was born at Tirupur (Tamil Nadu). |
| 12/12/1992 | Government asks CBI to probe the demolition of the masjid in Ayodhya. |
| 6/9/1998 | Gujarat was hit by a cyclone killing 1,000 people in six days. |
| 10/6/1969 | Bruna Coutinho, Indian Soccer(Football) player, was born in Calangute, Goa. He was recognised as Indian Player of the Year in 1996. |
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