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Historical Event on 8/5/1950
Gopinath Bardoloi, architect of modern Assam, freedom fighter and leader, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/23/1903 | Chandra Shekhar Azad was born Today in 1903 |
| 11/20/1917 | J.C. Bose Research Institute was established in Calcutta. |
| 3/2/1984 | Mother Teresa University inaugurated by Mother herself at Kodaikanal in Tamil Nadu. |
| 12/23/1995 | 400 people, mostly children and their parents, die in a fire that broke out during the Annual Day celebrations of DAV Public School. The fire was suspected to be caused due to electric short-circuit in Mandi Dabwali, Haryana. |
| 11/13/1908 | Yeshwantrao Hindurao Ghorpade, former ruler and great industrialist, was born. |
| 1/29/1853 | Madhusudan Rao, modern writer in Oria language, was born. |
| 8/6/1925 | Surendra Nath Banerjee died. He was one of the founders of mordern India and proponent of autonomy within the British Commonwealth. He was President of Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad. |
| 2/21/1997 | Sonic Multani bags National snooker title in Mumbai. |
| 12/17/1978 | Dhirendranath Ganguly, father of Bengali film industry, died. |
| 11/28/1962 | K. C. Dey, well-known famous blind singer of Bengal, died. |
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