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Historical Event on 11/8/1893

Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu, great musician and professor, was born in Bangalore.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/21/1947Indian Constitution Assembly accepted the tricolour flag as its National Flag. This flag is with three equal horizontal stripes of Saffron (Sacrifice), White (Truth) and Green (Prosperity) and a Chakra is superimposed on white (Dharma Chakra on the capitol of Ashoka's Pillar at Sarnath) in blue colour having 24 spokes. The ratio of the width to length is two to three.
3/26/1990Pratap Singh Rane,Goa CM, resigns.
12/21/1974Inssatvahana, the first establishment to give submarine training, was commissioned at Visakhapatnam.
2/20/1994Government makes the first appointment under 27\% reservation for Other Backward Classes in Central Services and Public Sector Undertaking.
11/14/1995Supreme Court gave patients the right to drag careless doctors to Court.
7/5/1981Rajan Mahadevan recites 31,811 digits of ¦(pie) from memory.
8/12/1988S. R. Bommai elected Karnataka CM.
10/23/1898Khandubhai K. Desai, politician and social reformer, was born at Bulsar in Gujarat.
11/15/1993IA Airbus with 272 on board forcelands on a paddy field near Tirupati; all passengers safe.
3/22/1933M.V.Nagendra, cricket test umpire for 11 tests from 1963-77, was born at Karnataka.