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Historical Event on 5/8/1996
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/8/1996 | Guru Ramdas, Sikh Guru, was born. |
| 6/20/1948 | Lord Mountbatten resigns as the Governor General of Indian Union. |
| 5/24/1990 | Surjit Singh Barnala sworn in as Governor of Tamil Nadu. |
| 10/1/1997 | Bus with 70 people fell into a stream near Cuddappah. |
| 10/24/1934 | Mahatma Gandhi quits Indian Indian National Congress in struggle over tactics. |
| 3/11/1689 | Sambhaji, Shivaji's successor, who was captured at Sangameshwar, was assasinated in the prison of Aurangzeb by Mughal officer Muqurab Khan. |
| 9/18/1992 | Andhra government's order of setting up 12 private medical colleges quashed by a full bench of the High Court. |
| 3/26/1997 | Andhra Pradesh Assembly passes a Bill to amend the Prohibition Act, ending the state's 2-year experiment with total prohibition. |
| 9/3/1953 | Laxmanrao Parvatkar (Khaprumama), famous Tabla player, passed away. |
| 6/19/1981 | APPLE, India's first experimental geo-stationary telecommunication satellite having experimental communication satellite, successfully launched by European Ariane, Kourou, French Guiana. This is the first to be stabilized on 3 axes. |
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