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Historical Event on 5/8/1901

British commission claims famine has taken 1.25 million lives since 1899; blames over population.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/16/1901Pralhad Balacharya Gajendragadkar, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born.
9/25/1962Rajiv Ramesh Kulkarni, cricketer (Indian Test pace bowler 1986-87), was born in Bombay.
9/25/1962Humayun died at Delhi. Two days earlier he had slipped on the staircase of a library being constructed at the Old Fort.
12/23/1902Chaudhary Charan Singh was born at Noopur village in Hapur Tehsil near Meerut. He was a freedom fighter and had done many deeds for upliftment of Agriculture in India. He was the Prime Minister of India from July 1979 to January 1980.
2/14/1807Khanderao Holkar, one of the sardars in Peshwa kingdom, passed away.
6/5/1929S.V. Subramanian, great Hindi writer, was born at Virakeralanpudur, Tamil Nadu.
3/27/1966Indira Gandhi meets Johnson in Washington.
6/21/1999Leander Paes was seeded number one in double's ranking. This was his highest double ranking.
9/27/1990Kabita Garari sets record for 10 Km W (Women) in 48.10 at Beijing Asian Games.
5/23/1997The body of controversial former chief of Tarn Taran district police Ajit Singh Sandhu is recovered from rail tracks near Bhakharpur About 30 km from Chandigarh.