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Historical Event on 5/8/1906
Prannath Thapar, former General of India, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/31/1996 | Asia's first Sports University inaugurated in Pune. |
| 6/6/1996 | Benazir Bhutto,Pakistan PM, gives green signal for opening up trade with India. |
| 3/23/1923 | Shekh Mubarak Ali Ayaj, Sindhi litterateur, was born. |
| 1/3/1836 | Munshi Newal Kishore, son of Jamuna Prasad Bhargava--a zamindar of Aligarh-- and a great erudite scholar, educationist, nationalist, social worker and a pioneer industrialist, was born. He was the founder of Navalkishore Press, Lucknow (1858), which published 2612 books that elaborated Hindi literature. He was the Publisher of Awadhi Newspaper in Asia. |
| 6/3/1947 | Evening newspaper 'Jay Hind' published. |
| 4/28/1936 | Abdul Rashid 'Fida' (Kishtwari), great poet, was born. |
| 5/15/1999 | Militants gun down Abdul Ahad Kar, a senior member of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly belonging to the ruling National Conference, in Kupwara district. |
| 12/15/1965 | Third cyclone of the year kills another 15,000 at mouths of Ganges river. |
| 5/18/1966 | Panchanan Maheshwari, great Indian scientist of botany, passed away. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers. He discovered species of plants like ""Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchananil."" He wrote two authoritative books, 'An Introduction to the Embryology of Angiosperms' & 'Recent Advances in Embryology on Angiosperms'. In 1951, he founded the International Society of plant Morphologists. |
| 2/1/1881 | Cambridge Missionaries founded St. Stephen's College in Delhi. |
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