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Historical Event on 5/8/1933

Gandhi starts hunger strike to protest the British repression of untouchables.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/5/1994India test-fires a missile capable of reaching targets in China.
10/2/1845First Shipping Company of India started.
10/2/1845Rumi, famous Muslim Sufi poet, was born.
9/16/1916D. R. Samant, journalist and social reformer, was born at Ratnagiri, Maharashtra.
12/25/1943Japanese bombers raid Chittagong.
2/25/1884Ravishankar Maharaj, freedom fighter and national leader of the country, was born at Radhu village of Kaira District.
7/6/1939Manmohan Sood, cricketer (scored 0 & 3 in his only Test for India), was born in Lahore.
12/8/1911Gaandhiji invites Gokhale to South Africa.
10/22/1796Sawai Madhav Rao Peshwa II committed suicide by jumping from the terrace.
7/4/2000Volvo's Environmental Prize went to Prof. Amulya K. N. Reddy of India and three others for their work on ''How the world's energy resources can be made to suffice as the population grows''.