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Historical Event on 8/8/1932
Dada Kondke, famous Marathi actor, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/14/1994 | Setu Madhavrao Pagdi, researcher and historian, died. |
| 2/17/1968 | Dr. Kailas Nath Katju, freedom fighter, politician, leader, Governor of Orissa and West Bengal, passed away. |
| 8/18/1969 | Humayun Kabir, great politician, died. |
| 4/15/1946 | Triumphant over flesh and pain they passed away our day of peace to Cain. The original memorial was erected from local stone and the main epitaph displayed above is of black Naga stone. |
| 8/16/1932 | Britain instituted new electoral plan for India: to allow limited untouchables and giving them separate representation. |
| 12/25/1921 | Mass boycott greets the Prince of Wales when he arrives in Calcutta. |
| 4/13/1889 | Balkrishna A. Pillai, litterateur and journalist, was born. |
| 4/13/1889 | Buhlul Khan Lodi, an Afghan of Lodi tribe, marched down upon Delhi. |
| 7/25/1961 | Delhi upgraded as an A-class city on the basis of provisional Census figures of 1961. |
| 1/31/1941 | Second Lieutenant Premindra Singh Bhagat of the Bombay Sappers showed an act of unparalleled bravery and inspiring leadership when commanding a detachment of 21 Field company of the Bombay Sappers on the road to Gondar, in Abyssinia. Hence, The Victoria Cross (VC) was bestowed upon him and he became the first Indian Commissioned Officer receipeant of The Victoria Cross (VC). |
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