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Historical Event on 8/8/1923
Floods on the Ganges and Jumna rivers cause loss of life in Benares, India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/1/2000 | 27 'yatris' (travelers) die after militants attack a ''langar'' in a Pahalgam health resort en route to the Amarnath cave shrine. |
| 12/24/1880 | Pattabhi Sitaramayya, politician and president of Indian National Congress, was born in Andhra Pradesh. |
| 11/7/1966 | Riots over slaughtered cow claims seven lives. |
| 4/3/1991 | UP Assembly dissolved to pave way for Assembly polls . |
| 4/19/1960 | Meeting of Afro-Asian Conference at New Delhi. |
| 2/18/1993 | Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"". |
| 12/20/1946 | Gandhiji completes his month-long sojourn at Srirampur. |
| 6/29/1966 | Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi, famous mathematics expert, died. |
| 6/15/1907 | Narayan Ganesh Goray, freedom fighter and socialist, was born at Hindala (Maharashtra). |
| 6/17/1991 | Prabhakar Machve, famous litterateur, passed away. |
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