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Historical Event on 5/8/1954

Indian Government decided to integrate Chandranagar in West Bengal which was under the rule of the French.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/3/1956Manik Bandopadhyay, modern Bengali novelist and story writer, passed away.
12/8/1922Hari Prasad Sharma, cricket Test umpire for 3 tests from 1974-77, was born at Delhi.
1/18/1994India hires the law firm McAuliffe, Kelly and Rafaelli for lobbying in Washington.
5/7/1994Ustad Jahiruddin Dagar Nasir, famous classical singer of Dhrupad-Dhamar, passed away at the age of 62 in Bareilly.
5/25/1993Kazakhstan offers Baikonur facilities to India.
5/25/1993Sultan Mehmud of Ghazni began his first real expedition to India by defeating the Hindu King Jaipal. He won Afghanisthan and Punjab in Peshawar battle. This was the first major Muslim conquest in India.
2/27/1996Suresh Kalmadi, Minister of State for Railways, presents vote-on-account railway budget; 1995-96 Economic Survey shows 6.3\% growth in GDP; 20\% interim relief for newspaper employees announced by govt.
9/10/1918Muslim riots break out in Calcutta.
2/19/1993Salseng C. Marak sworn in as the Congress-I CM in Meghalaya.
4/14/1905Earthquake at Kangra region in Himachal.