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Historical Event on 5/8/1954

Indian Government decided to integrate Chandranagar in West Bengal which was under the rule of the French.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/6/1664Chhatrapati Shivaji attacked on Surat.
1/17/1997Government rules out granting dual citizenship to NRIs.
12/25/1997India-Sri Lanka one-day cricket match at Indore abandoned after three overs owing to a bad state of the pitch, which was a rare occurance.
9/5/1997Mother Teresa, founder of Missionaries of Charity who was awarded with Nobel Prize (1979) and Bharat Ratna, died at the age of 87 due to heart attack late in the evening around 9:30 pm in Calcutta.
4/3/1984Bombay beat Delhi on first innings to win the Ranji Trophy.
11/3/1933Amartya Kumar Sen, economist, was born at Santiniketan (Bangal).
6/1/1819William Carey, Ward and Marshman established the Serampore College in Bengal.
2/23/1962The Cholera Research Centre was established at Calcutta (renamed as the National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases in 1979).
6/6/1997New economic grouping BIST-EC (Bangladesh-India-Sri Lanka-Thailand Economic Cooperation forum) comes into being.
3/23/1992G. S. Dhillon, former speaker of Lok Sabha, passed away.