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Historical Event on 1/8/1956

Tryambak Sitaram Karkhanis, founder of 'Maharashtra Drama Group' (Maharashtra Natak Mandali), died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/21/1966General Election (11th) of India ends.
7/1/1999The Rashtriya Janata Party (RJP) of Shankersinh Waghela merges with Congress(I).
9/21/1994Ramkrishna Bajaj, freedom fighter and veteran industrialist, passed away.
3/17/1988First operational Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1A) launched by a Russian Vostok. IRS system under National Natural Resources Management System (NNRMS) coordinated at national level by the Planning Committee of NNRMS (PC-NNRMS) and the data from IRS satellites is processed by the National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad. SI, a US Company, also receives and markets IRS data worldwide under a commercial contract with Antrix Corporation of the Department of Space.
11/28/1999Senior Awami League leader Mohammed Anwar Sheikh is killed and his wife and daughter-in-law are seriously injured in a militant attack on his house in Kashmir.
8/20/1909Urmila Devi Shastri, freedom fighter, was born at Srinagar.
3/22/1991President withholds assent to the pension bill of Members of Parliament.
8/29/2000Supreme Court releases of 115 'Veerappan aides' on bail or otherwise till further orders.
7/18/1695Joannes Camphuys, Governal General of Dutch-Indies, died at the age of 61.
6/19/1990NDC approves approach paper to the Eighth Plan.