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Historical Event on 8/7/1982
Krishnakanta Radhakant Handique, linguist, educationist, Sanskrit scholar, principal of J.B. College and Padma Bhushan awardee, passed away. He also authored the learned works 'Naisadhacarita', 'Yasastilaka and Indian Culture' etc. His original treatise written in Sanskrit by Somaveda in the 10th century is an encyclopedic work dealing with Jainism and Indian thoughts and culture.
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| 8/10/1986 | Gen. A.S. Vaidya, who was Chief of Army Staff, at the time of 'Operation Blue Star', was shot dead at Pune. |
| 9/10/1920 | Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was born at Hadagali in Karnataka. In 1945 he put forward the ""theory of estimation"" in statistics. His formulae and therorems, for instance the ""Cramer-Rao inequality"", ""The Fisher-Rao theorem"" and ""Rao-Black Wellistaion"" are now part of any standard textbook of statistics. For his significant contributions, Rao received the S. S. Bhatnagar Award, the Meghnad Saha Medal and the Guy medal. |
| 12/8/1857 | Mohsini from Delhi was hanged in jail. |
| 10/16/1936 | 35 killed in Hindu-Muslim riots at Bombay. |
| 2/26/1984 | Satellite Insat 1-B dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. |
| 8/13/1928 | Nationalists issue a draft constitution calling for dominion status and a two-chamber parliament. |
| 7/15/1993 | Maninderjit Singh Bitta,Punjab Minister of State for Irrigation, appointed new Youth Cong (I) President. |
| 1/18/1938 | The last batch of the political prisioners sailed back to the mainland from the Cellular Jail. |
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