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Historical Event on 8/1/1996
Madhu Dandavate is made Dy. Chairman, Planning Commission.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/15/1997 | Interest rate on domestic term deposits brought down from 10 to nine per cent by RBI. |
| 7/25/1929 | Somnath Chatterjee, politician and lawyer, was born. |
| 3/9/1994 | Devika Rani Roerich, the first lady of the Indian screen, died at the age of 87 years in Bangalore. |
| 7/31/1861 | 9,300 mm rainfall in July in Cherrapunji, Assam becomes a world record. |
| 12/10/1857 | Veer Narayan Singh organised a small group and had an encounter with British army. He was charged treason and sentenced to death. He was executed publicly. |
| 6/24/1869 | Hari Chapekar Damodar was born virtually. He was the first terrorist of India. |
| 6/24/1974 | India all out for 42 in Lord's Test cricket in 77 mins. |
| 4/25/1906 | Dara Nusserwanji Marshall, librarian and educationist, was born. |
| 1/8/1984 | Sushma Mukhopadhyay, first Indian women pilot, died at the of 74. |
| 7/7/1997 | Armed Kuki militants shot dead 25 persons and injured five seriously in an attack on Paites village in Manipur. |
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