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Historical Event on 8/1/1882

Purushottamdas Tandon, great leader and editor, was born at Allahabad (U.P.).

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/11/1845First battle between Britishers and Sikhs. In 1849, Punjab lost its independence. This is referred as the first Anglo-Sikh War.
4/8/1937R. Gundurao, former Chief Minister of Karnataka and senior leader of Indira Congress, was born.
4/14/1905Earthquake at Kangra region in Himachal.
5/29/1953Mount Everest conquered by Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay.
9/1/1942Rasbihari Bose established the Indian National Army.
9/13/1990An attempt to hijack a Coimbatore-Bangalore-Madras Indian Airlines flight IC 534 to Sri Lanka.
5/24/1992D. R. Bhagwat, veteran journalist, passed away.
3/11/1915Vijay Samuel Hazare, cricketer (prolific Indian batsman 1946-54), was born in Sangli, Maharashtra.
9/5/1997CBI chargesheets former Railway Minister C.K. Jaffer Sharief for possessing assets disproportionate to his income.
6/24/1991Jayalalitha ministry sworn in in Tamil Nadu.