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Historical Event on 8/5/1994

Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, a key accused in 1993's Bombay blast case, was arrested.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/6/1948Security Council takes up India's complaint charging Pakistan with aggression in Kashmir.
6/27/1939Rahul Dev (R. D.) Burman ""Pancham Da"", famous music director, was born.
8/9/1998India moves the World Trade Organisation against the European Union reimposing anti-dumping duties on unbleached cotton gray fabric imports.
12/1/1974Sucheta Kriplani, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, passed away.
3/20/1991Simultaneous polls in Tamil Nadu.
2/16/1968Beatles George Harrison and John Lennon along with their wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
7/31/1948State Transport Corporation was established in Calcutta.
12/15/1965Third cyclone of the year kills another 15,000 at mouths of Ganges river.
2/4/1991An abortive bid to hijack a Calcutta-Agartala flight by a 24-year old youth.
9/27/1999Harshad Mehta and three others are convicted for misappropriating surplus funds of the Maruti Udyog Ltd.