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Historical Event on 1/8/1965
Star of India', world's largest sapphire, returned to American Museum of Natural History.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/15/1997 | Interest rate on domestic term deposits brought down from 10 to nine per cent by RBI. |
| 11/8/1960 | Subroto Mukherjee died while having dinner in Tokyo, where he had gone with the Air India International Airlines which made its first inaugural flight to the city of Tokyo, Japan. |
| 6/25/1943 | No. 8 Squadron started functioning absorbing the remaining coastal defence flight personnel, and also issued with a vengeance to achieve operational status. |
| 10/1/1997 | Gul Mohammed (36), world's shortest man, died in New Delhi. Standing 56.16 cm tall, Mohammed entered the Guinness Book of World Records in 1992. |
| 4/25/2000 | West Bengal police nab Belal alias Lalu Mian, the suspected mastermind behind the hijacking of IC-814 IA flight to Kandahar last December, from a hideout in North 24 Parganas district. |
| 9/25/1947 | Kashmir accedes to Indian Union. |
| 1/24/1924 | Karpoori Thakur ""Jan Nayak"", freedom fighter, teacher and national president of Samyukta Socialist Party, was born in village Samastipur, District Bihar. |
| 12/28/1981 | Madras-Penang undersea cable commissioned. |
| 5/23/1996 | 1995-96 deficit touches a new high at Rs.19,855 crore. |
| 12/20/1967 | Indira Gandhi gets powers to outlaw groups that question sovereignty. |
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