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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
2/12/1993The baggage rules relaxed further.
2/12/1987Mahamayaprasad Sinha, former Chief Minister of Bihar, passed away.
12/26/1917Prabhakar Machve, famous Hindi and Marathi litterateur, was born.
2/23/1952Employees Provident Fund Bill and Miscellaneous Provision Act passed in the Lok Sabha.
3/30/1994G-15 summit in New Delhi decides to set up a trade panel.
3/18/1996President confers gallantry awards on 65 personnel of the defence forces.
12/22/1995A Russian-made AN-26 plane forced to land in Bombay following an Intelligence Bureau tip off that it could be the suspected aircraft which dropped arms at Purulia.
11/15/1817Battle of Yerwada.
12/6/199813th Asian Games inaugurated at Bangkok.
3/23/1919Subhadra Joshi, freedom fighter, was born. She took active participation in Salt and non cooperation movement. She also motivated the freedom movement through her newspaper ""Hamara Sangram"".