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Historical Event on 8/5/1939
In the first case to be brought under Prohibition laws, a railroad passenger was today convicted of possessing a bottle of brandy in Bombay.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/25/1910 | Dalai Lama, Tibeten monk, flees from Chinese troops and takes refuge in India. |
| 2/3/1928 | Chandrasekhar Vaman Gadkari, cricketer (Indian batsman in 6 Tests 1953-55), was born at Pune. |
| 12/4/1910 | Ramaswami Venkataraman, former President of India (1987-92), was born. |
| 1/11/1996 | Canadian PM Jean Chretien visits New Delhi. |
| 9/14/1949 | Hindi declared the national language by the Constituent Assembly after a three-day debate. |
| 2/27/1993 | Samir Ranjan Barman, Tripura CM, resigns. |
| 10/30/1996 | Pop star Michael Jackson arrives in Bombay. |
| 2/3/1905 | Sir Padampat Singhania, great industrialist, was born at Kanpur. |
| 2/19/1992 | A 12-member Congress (I) TUJS coalition ministry led by S. R. Burman sworn in Tripura. |
| 7/1/1955 | Imperial Bank of India was inaugurated and was renamed as State Bank of India. |
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