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Historical Event on 5/8/1995
Prem Bhatia, journalist, passed away at 83.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/22/1910 | Mohommed Hussain `Azad', great Urdu poet, eassy writer and critic, died. |
| 1/14/1843 | Fakir Mohan Senapati, great writer and nationalist, was born. |
| 12/7/2000 | A five-member ULFA group guns down 26 non-Assamese people, mostly Hindi and Bengali-speaking, at Sonpura near Arunachal Pradesh Border in Upper Assam. |
| 9/11/2000 | A Delhi High Court exonerates senior Congress(I) leader and former Union Minister H.K.L. Bhagat in a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case in Delhi (in Mansarovar Park in East Delhi on November 1, 1984). |
| 10/16/1999 | Indian women claimed bronze in the Asian team chess championship in Shenyang |
| 11/24/1997 | Leander-Mahesh stumble at the final step, finish second in the World doubles tennis championships at Hartford. |
| 4/3/1946 | Sagarmal Gopa, devoted patriot, freedom fighter and political worker, was burnt alive. |
| 3/10/1997 | Maharashtra government renames Osmanabad as Dharashiva. |
| 3/18/1974 | Buddhadev Basu, modern Bengali poet, story writer, playwright and critic, passed away. |
| 5/14/1960 | The first plane of India flew upto New York. |
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