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Historical Event on 1/8/1965
Star of India', world's largest sapphire, returned to American Museum of Natural History.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/23/1989 | V. C. Pande was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 11-12-1990. |
| 8/20/1955 | Jawaharlal Nehru breaks off relations with the Portuguese after the invasion of Goa by Indian nationalists. |
| 12/1/1885 | Dattatreya Balkrishna Kalelkar, famous Gandhian Gujrathi llitterateur and educationist, was born at Satara in Maharashtra. |
| 1/18/1996 | N. T. Rama Rao, chief minister of Andhra Pradesh (during 1983-84, 84-89, 94-95), passed away at Hydrabad. |
| 12/25/1932 | King George V's chair collapsed during his Christmas dinner speech. |
| 12/8/1996 | Sachin Tendulkar became the youngest cricketer to make 3000 runs in test cricket (at the age of 23 yrs and 228 days.) |
| 12/19/2000 | A massive blaze guts Mehboob Studio, one of the oldest in Mumbai city. |
| 12/19/2000 | |
| 12/27/1992 | Dhananjay Bhattacharya, famous Bengali singer, died. |
| 12/8/1994 | At 1730 hrs, a rocket propelled grenade fired by Somalia militia during inter clan fighting exploded on the roof of the barrack which housed IAF officers. In the explosion, two officers and an airman were injured. |
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