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Historical Event on 2/8/1936
Manohar Shankar Hardikar, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests India vs West Indies in 1958-59), was born in Baroda.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
5/18/1974 | First underground Atomic device explosion for India was carried out successfully near Pokhran in Rajasthan (Thar Desert) at 8:05 a.m. This event made India as the 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb. |
11/11/1793 | English pioneer missionary William Carey, 32, reached Calcutta five months after setting sail for India. Later, Carey founded the Baptist Missionary Society, the first of the British Protestant missions agencies. |
2/19/1911 | Merle Oberon, film actress (Assignment Foreign Legion), was born in Calcutta, India. |
6/24/1966 | Atul Chandrakant Bedade, cricketer (Indian ODI batsman from 1994), was born in Bombay. |
1/12/1946 | De-monetisation of currency notes of the value of Rs. 500 and above. |
1/28/1984 | Dozen's of Sikh Militants arrested in India's troubled Punjab State after terrorists killed 3 people and injured 31 in grenade attack. |
8/2/1781 | Sakharambapu Bokeel, great politician in Maratha kingdom, died. |
6/9/1957 | General Election ( 2nd) of India ends. |
6/2/1991 | Dinesh Goswami, former Law Minister, passed away in a road accident in Assam. |
6/20/1756 | A group of British soldiers along with Halvel were imprisoned by some rebellions in a suffocating cell that gained notoriety as the ""Black Hole of Calcutta."" Most of them died here. |
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