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Historical Event on 8/5/1907
Kashi Nath Pandey, politician and Trade Unionist, was born in Fursatpur Village.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/28/1972 | Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis died. He was the first founder of Indian statistical Institute to receive world recognition. In 1958, he started his national sample surveys. A Sample survey means assessing a situation by studying a part of it which would represent the whole, some of his proposals were included in the second five year paln. His original work made him elected as fellow of the Royal society in 1945. |
| 4/26/1908 | Judge Sarv Mittra Sikri, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born. |
| 11/24/1948 | Ashok Gandotra, cricketer (Two Tests for India 1969), was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
| 10/2/1996 | Mother Teresa made honorary US citizen. |
| 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. |
| 5/11/1965 | The first of two cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 people in the country. |
| 10/21/1981 | Kerala under central rule. |
| 7/31/1933 | Gandhiji was arrested from Sabarmati Ashram and imprisoned without trial. |
| 12/7/1825 | First Steam Engine Ship ""Enterprise"" reached Calcutta. |
| 4/29/1939 | Netaji resigned from the Congress and established his own party, the Forward Block and created a political deadlock in India. |
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