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Historical Event on 5/8/1930
Gandhi followers mob Bombay to protest his arrest.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/16/1901 | Mahadeo Govind Ranade, eminent social worker and thinker, passed away. |
| 12/13/1772 | Narayan Rao became the Peshwa at Satara. |
| 10/2/1930 | Jayasinghrao Mansingrao Ghorpade, cricketer (8 Tests for India 1952-59 with little impact), was born in Panchgani, Maharashtra. |
| 10/2/1930 | Acharya Surdasji, famous poet in Hindi and great devotee of Lord Krishna, was born. |
| 8/26/2000 | Vijay Kumar wins the Hindu Open Golf championship at the Cosmopolitan Club in Chennai. |
| 8/13/1784 | East India Company was appointed as the centralised Regulatory Authority through India by Pitt's India Act, which was accepted in British Parliament in England. |
| 1/14/1969 | Madras State renamed Tamil Nadu. |
| 10/2/1910 | Frank C. Brown, educationist and social worker, was born. |
| 5/31/1981 | First developmental launch of SLV-3, Rohini (RS-D1) placed in orbit. It was used for conducting some remote sensing technology studies using a landmark sensor payload. |
| 9/1/1934 | Suniti Kumar Ghosh, cricket test umpire for two tests from 1988-89, was born in Bengal. |
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