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Historical Event on 8/8/1923

Floods on the Ganges and Jumna rivers cause loss of life in Benares, India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/10/1967Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, laid the foundation stone of Women's University, Karnataka, founded to pay gratitude to Rani Chainema of Kitur.
1/10/1967Mughal army defeated Rana Pratapsingh in the battle of Haldighat.
2/9/1991India holds the last decennial census of the century.
9/6/1774British Government supported Peshwa Raghunath Rao to re-conqure Pune.
6/21/1999Leander Paes was seeded number one in double's ranking. This was his highest double ranking.
8/23/1994Former prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif said that Pakistan possessed a nuclear bomb and warned that an attack by India could start a nuclear war in Pakistan.
10/30/1991Bansilal Ladda, veteran freedom fighter and law expert, passed away.
1/27/1988The first ever helicopter mail service was inaugurated at Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The first flight was from Port Blair to Havelock Island and its inaugurated by the Governer of Andaman and Nicobar Island.
12/14/1998The Government introduces the controversial Women's Reservation Bill in the Lok Sabha.
3/25/1983Chalpati Rao, great journalist, passed away.