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Historical Event on 8/1/1998
The DMK condemns the BJP-led coalition Government's decision to set up a Multi-Disciplinary Monitoring Agency and rejects the Action Taken Report on the final report of the Jain Commission with reference to Mr. M. Karunanidhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/1/1893 | Kashinath Tryambak Telang, first Maharashtrian Chief Justice of Mumbai High Court, died. |
| 3/7/1942 | Umesh Narayan Kulkarni, cricketer (Indian pace bowler in four Tests 1967-68), was born in Alibaug, Maharashtra. |
| 2/18/1665 | The Portuguese handover Mumbai island to England. |
| 7/15/1991 | Jagannathrao Joshi, veteran leader of Janata Party `Karnataka Kesri', died. |
| 12/28/1926 | Shirish Kumar, freedom figher, was born. |
| 3/14/1931 | First Indian talkie film 'Alam Ara' released at Majestic Cinema, Bombay. Directed by Ardeshir Irani, the film was 11,152 ft. long and was produced by Imperial Film Co., Bombay and beared censored No. 10043 on March 11. The most remarkable thing about this film was birth of sound in Indian films, it came with a bang and quickly displaced the silent movies and brought revolutionary changes in the whole set up of the industry. |
| 6/7/1999 | Supreme Court, through an interim order, stayed the execution of the four accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case till July 19, 1999. |
| 4/1/1969 | India's first Atomic Energy Reactor started at Tarapore. |
| 4/1/1969 | While returning to his country, Timur Lung looted and destroyed Delhi and parts of North India including Hardwar, the Ganga pilgrimage town, and crossed Sindhu River. |
| 6/26/1995 | Madhya Pradesh declared ""Tiger State"" as it homes one sixth of the world's tiger population. |
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