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Historical Event on 8/1/1998
The DMK condemns the BJP-led coalition Government's decision to set up a Multi-Disciplinary Monitoring Agency and rejects the Action Taken Report on the final report of the Jain Commission with reference to Mr. M. Karunanidhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/8/1970 | Army Ordnance Corps was awarded the 'Colours' by the Vice President of India, Shri G S Pathak, at AOC Centre, Secunderabad. The Ordnance colour is a scarlet silken flag with the Ordnance crest in the center and surrounding it is a wreath of Ashoka Leaves and Lotus flowers. |
| 3/20/1993 | Memon brothers, the prime suspects in the Bombay bomb blasts, escape from Dubai. |
| 8/12/1897 | Major Gegeral Himmat Singh, Governor of Himachal Pradesh and Duputy Defence Minister, was born. |
| 9/30/1996 | Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne, Sri Lankan social scientist, received the Gandhi Peace Prize 1996. |
| 7/1/1961 | Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian women astronaut (STS 87), was born in Karnal. |
| 7/1/1961 | Royal Charter forms the East India Company, setting in motion a process that ultimately results in the subjugation of India under British rule. |
| 6/25/1975 | President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed signed the declaration of Emergency Rule in India. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi implemented the same very next day. |
| 5/29/1658 | Dara Shukoh was utterly defeated by Aurangzeb in the battle of Samugarh near Agra. |
| 8/15/1947 | At the stroke of midnight, India is free after 163 years of British Raj. At the same time Muslims win a degree of freedom from Hindus. They have their own separate dominion Pakistan in the British Commonwealth Sect. |
| 1/24/1870 | Muddan, famous Kannad poet and novelist, was born. |
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