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Historical Event on 8/10/1995

Harishankar Parsai, famous Hindi litterateur, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/28/1997Final phase of repatriation of Chakma and other tribal refugees of the Chittagong Hill Tracts from Tripura begins.
5/15/1992Harshad Mehta suspended.
11/24/1948Ashok Gandotra, cricketer (Two Tests for India 1969), was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
3/25/1911L. D. Swamikannu publishes ""Manual of Indian Chronology"" in Bombay.
9/17/1998Rabri Devi, Chief Minister of Bihar, expands the Cabinet, inducting nine ministers, even as the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (Soren) group formally withdraws support to her ministry.
1/16/1901Mahadeo Govind Ranade, eminent social worker and thinker, passed away.
7/23/1903Chandra Shekhar Azad was born Today in 1903
11/15/1913Ravindranath Tagore (1861-1941), received the message that he was awarded with Noble Prize in literature for his collection of poems ""Gitanjali"" . He was the first Indian to be awarded with Nobel Prize. (13 or 15)
2/27/1912Lawrence Durrell, Britsh writer (Alexandria Quartet, Private Country), was born in Darjeeling, India. .
4/5/1944221 Advance Base Depots laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks and succeeded in safe evacuation of Ordnance stores to an alternate site.