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Historical Event on 8/5/1939
In the first case to be brought under Prohibition laws, a railroad passenger was today convicted of possessing a bottle of brandy in Bombay.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/13/1998 | India signs two agreements with the World Bank for concessional credit through the International Development Association for $115.4 million. |
| 4/5/1944 | 221 Advance Base Depots laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks and succeeded in safe evacuation of Ordnance stores to an alternate site. |
| 10/10/1909 | Nagarwala Noshirvan Dorab, cricket umpire of five Tests, was born in Maharashtra. |
| 2/2/1959 | Indira Gandhi was elected the president of the ruling Congress Executive Party. Thereby Congress spilt,and leftist formed Swantantra Party. |
| 7/14/1856 | Gopal Ganesh Agarkar, great social worker, was born. |
| 12/20/1990 | Supreme Court stays Delhi High Court judge Justice Chawla's orders on the Bofors issue. |
| 11/29/1988 | Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support. |
| 4/1/2000 | Disinvestment not distress sell, says Prime Minister A. B. Vajpayee at a conference of chief executives of PSUs in New Delhi. |
| 11/10/1848 | Surendranath Banerji, popularly known as Rashtraguru, was born at Taltala, Calcutta. He passed his final ICS Examination in 1869 and joined in 1871, He was President of the Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad. |
| 5/13/1648 | Construction of the Red Fort at Dehli was completed. |
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