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Historical Event on 8/5/2000

Lala Amarnath (88), former Indian cricketer, died in New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/22/1858Veer Narayan Singh, freedom fighter, was sentenced to death.
4/20/1971India won Cricket Test Rubber' for the first time after defeating West Indies Cricket Team.
9/16/1913Kasturba Gandhi was arrested.
10/19/1983Prof. Subramanyam Chandrasekhar shares the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with fellow American Prof. William Fowler.
8/11/1916Gopal Raghunath Bewur, former Chief of Army and fighter, was born.
11/15/1992At least 170 people die in heavy rains and floods in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
10/1/1903Sachindev Burman (S. D. Burman), famous film music director, was born.
3/7/1956A gigantic steel tube plant opened in Jamshedpur. It was the first of its kind in India.
1/27/1995K.V. Krishna Rao, J&K Governor, gets another term.
2/1/1994ONGC becomes a Public Limited Company.