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Historical Event on 5/8/1815
Malaun of Nepal was captured by General David Ochterlony.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/11/1971 | The elite para-commandos and parachute battalions -India's 'Red Devils', as they are affectionately called, have an unsurpassed ethos and elan of their own. 2 Para Battalion executed a superb airborne assault operation at Tangail in East Pakistan, which was the first of its kind in the subcontinent. |
| 1/22/1990 | The International Literacy Campaign was launced in the country by the Prime Minister at a national function held at New Delhi. (8-9-90). |
| 6/23/1927 | All India Radio's broadcasting service started in 1927 by privately owned transmitter at Bombay and Calcutta. |
| 1/23/1999 | An Australian missionary, Graham Stewart Staines, and his two sons Philip and Timothy are burnt to death by miscreants near Manoharpur village in Orissa's Keonjhar district. |
| 4/1/1987 | Bureau of Indian Standards was changed to Indian Standards Institution. |
| 7/22/1991 | Pandit Basavraj Rajguru, great singer, passed away. |
| 1/1/1920 | Seth Darbari Shah, great industrialist, was born in Ikhlas. |
| 11/27/2000 | Supreme Court grants bail to four AIADMK men accused in the 2nd February Dharmapuri bus burning incident. |
| 11/14/1969 | Jawaharlal Nehru University inaugurated in New Delhi. |
| 10/1/1903 | Sachindev Burman (S. D. Burman), famous film music director, was born. |
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