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Historical Event on 1/8/1996
Maharashtra government clears Enron Dhabol power project at a tariff of Rs. 1.86 per unit.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/9/1969 | Ochterlony Memorial in Calcutta was renamed as 'Shahid Minar'. |
| 5/9/1874 | First horse-drawn tram car started running in Mumbai. |
| 9/1/1978 | Air Chief Marshal Idris Hasan Latif, PVSM, became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/Aug/1981. |
| 1/22/1986 | Indira Gandhi Rajbhasha Awards instituted. |
| 5/26/1948 | First ever trade agreement with Pakistan. |
| 12/1/1894 | Bhim Sen Sachar, freedom fighter, leader and Chief Minister of Punjab, was born. |
| 4/17/1941 | Office of Price Administration was formed which handled the rationing of essential commodities. |
| 7/18/1997 | Fifth Pay Commission report approved by Central Govt. |
| 2/24/1880 | Satyanarayan, great poet of Kannada language, was born. |
| 1/1/1926 | Mohammad Abdul Hye, educationist, was born at Alitangani, (Nowgong). |
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