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Historical Event on 1/8/1884

Keshav Chunder Sen, nationalist leader of Bengal, social worker and good orator of Brahma Samaj, passed away at his home in Lily Cottage, Calcutta. He was one of the first Indians to sow the seeds of secularism in our country. He strongly believed that education was the basic necessity to change the society.

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4/12/1912Kirpal Singh Narang, social reformer and educationist, was born at Amritsar (Punjab).
1/19/1982Mizo National Front and allied organizations declared illegal.
3/3/1999Four members of the forward Bhumihar community and alleged members of the Ranbir Sena are gunned down by an armed squad of the People's War Group in Bhimpura village of Jehanbad district in Bihar.
3/3/1999Iltutmish, father of Radiya Sultan, died in Delhi.
10/23/1992The dissident ministers of Bangarappa government in Karnataka resign
6/5/1997Brahmapuram diesel power project, KSEB's first thermal power project, situated 25 km from Kochi, Kerala commissioned.
7/21/1963Kashi Vidyapeeth was given recognisation as University.
8/8/1972Olympics open at Munich (26).
1/16/1985Balram Jakhar elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha.