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Historical Event on 8/5/2000

Lala Amarnath (88), former Indian cricketer, died in New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/27/1997CBI decides to prosecute Bihar CM Laloo Prasad Yadav, former CM Dr. Jagannath Mishra, Union Minister Chandra Deo Prasad Verma and 53 others in the Rs. 950 crore fodder scam case.
5/8/1997India decides to import currency notes for the first time.
8/1/1882Purushottamdas Tandon, great leader and editor, was born at Allahabad (U.P.).
3/22/1938IRFA was registered as a local body not administered by the Government on March 22, 1938 under the Government of India Act No. XXI of 1860.
7/15/1903Kumaraswamy Kamraj, great freedom fighter, social reformer, political leader and member of the Lok Sabha, was born in a trading family at Virudhunagar in Tamil Nadu.
11/11/1924SunderLal Munnalal Patwa was born in Kukdeshwar, Distt. Neemuch (Madhya Pradesh).
10/30/1949Pramond Venkatesh Devidas Mahajan was born in Mahaboobnagar (Andhra Pradesh).
8/5/1992The Supreme Court appoints a 3-member panel to visit Ayodhya and report on the new structures there.
4/27/1878Calcutta University started Women's Education, and allowed women to appear in the Entrance Examination.
1/27/1926Arunkumar Vaidya, former General of Indian Army, was born.