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Historical Event on 5/8/1901
British commission claims famine has taken 1.25 million lives since 1899; blames over population.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/9/2000 | The Reserve Bank of India issued bank notes in the denomination of Rs.1000 in the Mahatma Gandhi series bearing the leader's portrait in the watermark and signature of Dr. Bimal Jalan, Governor of the RBI. The length of the note is 177 mm and the width is 73 mm. The notes are printed in a combination of offset and intaglio processes. This is the first note with intaglio printing on it. |
| 11/8/1960 | Subroto Mukherjee died while having dinner in Tokyo, where he had gone with the Air India International Airlines which made its first inaugural flight to the city of Tokyo, Japan. |
| 6/26/1888 | Narayan Shripad Rajhans (Balgandharv), famous singer and actor, was born. |
| 11/29/1952 | First international organization for birth control founded in Bombay. |
| 11/13/1908 | Yeshwantrao Hindurao Ghorpade, former ruler and great industrialist, was born. |
| 3/19/1911 | Santosh Kumar Ganguly, cricket test empire and 10 test 1955-65, was born in Bengal. He also played Hockey and Football. He is the aurthor of ""Manual of Cricket Umpires"" and ""Technique of Umpiring Hockey"". |
| 5/3/1913 | Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, more generally known as Dada Saheb Phalke, was responsible for the production of India's first fully indigenous silent four-reel feature film 'Raja Harishchandra' which heralded the birth of the Indian film industry. The film had titles in Hindi and English and was released on May 3, 1913 at the Coronation Cinematograph in Bombay. |
| 5/24/1875 | Sir Sayed Ahmed Khan established Mohmmad Anglo Oriental School which was renamed in 1920 as 'Aligarh Muslim University'. |
| 7/18/1997 | Fifth Pay Commission report approved by Central Govt. |
| 4/13/1994 | United Arab Emirates lost to India in its first official ODI. |
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