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Historical Event on 5/8/1901
British commission claims famine has taken 1.25 million lives since 1899; blames over population.
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| 9/7/1996 | First phase of J & K Assembly elections. |
| 3/12/1612 | Usman Khan Lohani, son of Isa Khan, was defeated in the battle of Nekujyal. He died as the last independent ruler of Bengal. |
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| 6/11/1984 | 574 Sikh army deserters arrested. |
| 4/12/1801 | William Carey fort was appointed the Professor of Bengali Language in fort at William College, Calcutta. |
| 4/9/1994 | C. Rajeshwara Rao, 80, former General Secretary of Communist Party of India, passed away in Hyderabad. |
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| 3/6/2000 | India and China begin the first ever bilateral security dialogue in Beijing on global and regional issues of mutual interest. |
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