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Historical Event on 1/8/1995

Madhu Limaye, veteran national leader, socialist thinker, freedom fighter, politician, writer, close associate of Ram Manohar Lohia and Jaya Prakash Narayan, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/3/1912M. Varadarajan, educationist and author, was born at Tirupattur.
5/8/1901British commission claims famine has taken 1.25 million lives since 1899; blames over population.
2/16/1997Ramakrishna Hegde launches a new national political party, Lok Shakti.
10/1/1990Justice Ranganath Mishra appointed Chief Justice of Supreme Court.
4/19/1960Meeting of Afro-Asian Conference at New Delhi.
5/10/1985P. N. Bhagawati appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
9/13/1992Union government decides to form a National Human Rights Commission.
7/29/1901Rudyard Kipling, the renowned author of stories and poems about colonial India and an unofficial spokesman for the British Empire, joined the rising chorus of criticism in regard to Britain's conduct in the increasingly unpopular Boer War.
10/3/1999India finished with seven silver and four bronze medals in the Asian Junior Athletic Championship in Singapore.
4/11/1999A.K.A. Abdul Samad (72), general secretary of IUML and State unit president, died in Chennai.