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Historical Event on 8/5/1905

Dr. Rajah Sir Muthiah Chettiar, social reformer, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/1/1966Marathi becomes the official language of Maharashtra.
4/11/2000Ms. Jhumpa Lahiri, an author of Indian origin, wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her debut collection of short stories 'Interpreter of Maladies'.
5/13/1997Doordarshan drops plans to enter the direct-to-home (DTH) mode of television transmission.
2/7/1922Britain threatens crackdown in India to combat Gandhi's civil disobedience campaign.
12/3/1971Hostilities broke out between India and Pakistan. On the very night that hostilities commenced, with Pakistan bombing several air fields, IN Ships 'Rajput' and 'Akshay' were leaving Vishakapatnam harbour when they obtained a sonar contact. They fired several depth charges and proceeded on their mission when there was no further evidence of a submarine's presence. Thereafter, a loud explosion of rattling windows panes off the Vishakapatnam beach was heard . The Pakistani submarine 'Ghazi' (a Tench class submarine obtained from the USA in 1964) had come to grief.
12/23/1920King George V signs Home Rule Act.
5/18/1992President R. Venkataraman reaches Beijing.
11/15/1932Surinder Kumar Mehra, Air Chief Marshal, was born in Delhi
12/13/1991Justice M. H Kania of Maharashtra sworn in as the 23rd Chief Justice of India.
6/20/1992CPM decides to back Dr. Sharma.



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