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Historical Event on 5/8/1996

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Other Historical Dates and Events
5/27/1968Second Jawaharlal Nehru award for International Understanding given to Reverend Martin Luther King posthumously.
11/20/1993RBI clears two more private banks: The Times Bank Ltd. and the Indus Ind Bank Ltd.
10/22/1796Sawai Madhav Rao Peshwa II committed suicide by jumping from the terrace.
8/15/1985Accord reached on the Assam foreign nationals issue, agitation called off.
9/16/1931Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan, popularly known as George Sudarshan, was born in Kottayam, Kerala. He was a physicist of world repute.
3/3/1924Mustafa Kamal Attaturk abolished the caliphate and established a nationalist government and thus Khilafat Movement ended without achieving its aim.
3/11/1971Indira Gandhi wins majority in Parliament.
1/21/1997First group of bank documents relating to Bofors case handed over to Indian Government.
2/25/1998Tendulkar's first first-class 204* for Mumbai vs Australia.
12/11/1971The elite para-commandos and parachute battalions -India's 'Red Devils', as they are affectionately called, have an unsurpassed ethos and elan of their own. 2 Para Battalion executed a superb airborne assault operation at Tangail in East Pakistan, which was the first of its kind in the subcontinent.