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Historical Event on 8/1/1920
Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian Hindu leader, died at Bombay.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/25/1975 | Chandulal Shah, film maker, passed away. |
| 2/13/1861 | Colonel Bernard Irwin attacks & defeats hostile Chiricahua Indians. |
| 8/10/1998 | Sri Bhuteshanandji Maharaj, 97, president of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, died in Calcutta. |
| 8/12/1979 | Heavy rains resulted in bursting of a dam thus causing floods in Moorvi and Lilapur in Gujarat, killing over 1,335 people. |
| 12/1/1998 | P. Subramaniam Poti (75), former Chief Justice of Kerala and Gujarat High Court, dies of a heart attack. |
| 3/8/1833 | Vishwanath Narayan Mandalik, famous journalist, writer and social reformer, was born. |
| 6/4/1926 | Dalai Lama introduces a tax on ears for Tibetans to equip the army. Those with only one ear will pay half the tax. |
| 6/16/1920 | Hemant Chaudhary, famous singer and music director, was born. |
| 3/1/1961 | The first AN-12B arrived in India. This was added in the force because of the increasing frequency of clashes with Chinese forces on the Sino-lndian Himalayan border and the need that these revealed for yet further increase in airlift capability, together with a requirement for medium helicopters suitable for high-altitude operation, orders were placed in the Soviet Union for eight Antonov An- 12B and 24IL-yushin 11- 14 transport aircraft plus 10 Mi-4 helicopters. |
| 5/10/1982 | Karnataka Kranti Ranga led by Devaraj Urs comes into being. |
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