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Historical Event on 8/5/1909
Dwijhans Kalika Prasad Dixit, great poet and educationist, was born at Gram Dedani in Uttar Pradesh.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/1/1974 | This year was announced to be observed as the ""World Population Year"". |
| 8/16/1994 | Government agrees to present the revised ATR on JPC report on Scam; Parliament crisis defused. |
| 1/17/1909 | Bejoy Kumar Sinha, journalist and social worker, was born at Kanpur. |
| 1/17/1997 | Supreme Court bans all non-forest activities including running of saw mills and mining in forest areas. |
| 4/24/1929 | First non-stop flight from England to India takes-off. |
| 7/20/1998 | Mr. Jaswant Singh, Prime Minister's special envoy, and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott discuss nuclear non-proliferation and security-related issues in New Delhi. |
| 11/19/1978 | Gavaskar gets twin cricket tons for India for second time. |
| 4/22/1915 | Hem Barua, famous Assami and English litterateur, was born. |
| 3/13/1958 | Vallathol Narayana Menon, great freedom fighter, poet, literateur and writer,died at the age of 80. |
| 2/19/1995 | National Research Centre for Oil Palm(NRCOP), the only institute exclusively devoted to Oil Palm research in India, was established. |
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