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Historical Event on 2/8/1971

Kanhaiyalal Maniklal Munshi, writer, administrator, leader and founder of Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/5/1919Sitaram Kesri, veteran Congress leader, was born.
10/31/1997Balmiki Prasad Singh takes over as Union Home Secretary. He succeeds K. Padmanabhaiah.
7/27/19987 Hindus are gunned down in two Doda villages of Jammu and Kashmir.
12/5/1657Murad proclaimed himself Emperor of India.
5/18/1995Criminal Law (Amendment Bill, 1995) introduced in Parliament to replace the 10-year-old controversial TADA Act.
7/18/1946U.K. Parliament approves British Cabinet mission report on India but Churchill says that the mission went too far in offering India independence outside of the Commonwealth.
8/10/1963The Kamraj Plan.
10/1/1967Indian Tourist Development Corporation Limited established.
4/28/1848Utkal Gourab Madhusudan Das was born in Calcutta district in Orissa.
2/17/1918S. V. Kumaraswamy, cricket Test Umpire for 1 test from 1961-62, was born at Tamil Nadu.