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Historical Event on 1/8/1981
India all out for 63 runs in one-day international vs Australia.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/28/1859 | Surbhi, farmer lady of Dholi Bavli, Central India, who was arrested for helping her son Bheema Nayak in the freedom movement and was jailed in Mahamandaleshwar jail, passed away. |
| 10/14/1998 | Prof. Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. He became the sixth Indian, by birth or citizenship, to win a Nobel. |
| 4/8/1946 | HMS Vengeance, sailed with 22 aircraft of No. 4 Sqn, halted at Singapore for re-fueling and set course for Iwakuni, a port of Kyushu island. |
| 1/26/2000 | Mr. K. Vadivel Raj gets the 1999 Kabir Puraskar for rescuing 11 persons of another community during caste violence in September 1998 in a village in Tamil Nadu. |
| 8/5/1986 | Vellupillai Prabakaran, Tamil rebel leader, died. The vision of secession for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority may have come to an end. But so, too, might the violence that the nation had endured. Today, Tamil rebel leader Vellupillai Prabakaran accepted the peace accord signed last week by India and Sri Lanka. Prabakaran surrendered to Indian forces and his men turned over their weapons. The pact is seen as a compromise by the co-signers. But to the dejected Tamil leader, who has fought since childhood for a Tamil victory, it was a stinging defeat. The treaty creates an autonomous multi-religious zone in the eastern and northern provinces. The rebels dreamed and passed away for a separate state of their own. |
| 9/4/1983 | INSAT-1B runs into snag, its solar array fails to deploy fully. |
| 3/20/1926 | For the first time in the history of the competition, Scotland beats England for rugby's Calcutta Cup in London. |
| 12/9/1989 | Shyama Charan Shukla sworn in as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. |
| 3/16/1966 | Judge Amal Kumar Sarkar became the Chief Justice of India. He held this office till 29/06/1966. |
| 1/27/1994 | Union Cabinet approves inclusion of the land reforms laws in the 9th Schedule of the Constitution. |
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