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Historical Event on 5/8/1930

Gandhi followers mob Bombay to protest his arrest.

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10/3/2000Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee buys peace with the Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee by agreeing to a partial rollback of the hike in prices of petroleum products.
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10/10/1964Ravi Shankar performs at Town Hall in New York.
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3/28/1916Ramkrishna Pillai, journalist and social reformer, passed away.
9/5/1967Central Hindi Committee constituted under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister.
11/11/1924SunderLal Munnalal Patwa was born in Kukdeshwar, Distt. Neemuch (Madhya Pradesh).
1/6/1987An International Conference to commemorate the 75 anniversary of the African National Congress opens in New Delhi.