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Historical Event on 5/8/1959

Dalai Lama will not be allowed to campaign for Tibetan independence in India. India wants to maintain friendly relations with Communist China.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/12/1930Babu Genu sacrificed his life to stage the boycott of foreign goods.
4/1/1978India's sixth Five-Year Plan commenced.
11/10/1848Surendranath Banerji, popularly known as Rashtraguru, was born at Taltala, Calcutta. He passed his final ICS Examination in 1869 and joined in 1871, He was President of the Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad.
4/5/1991Kerala Assembly dissolved paving way for elections.
10/2/1979Operation (Milk) Flood-II launched.
4/6/1919Mahatma Gandhi declared an All India Strike against the Rollatt Act .This was the first strike.
2/16/1962General Election ( 3rd) of India begins.
11/16/198966 out of 71 trapped miners at Raniganj rescued.
11/1/1978Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya (HPKV) was converted from College of Agriculture to University.
9/23/1983Supreme Court upholds execution of criminals through hanging by rope.