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Historical Event on 5/8/1954

Indian Government decided to integrate Chandranagar in West Bengal which was under the rule of the French.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/1/1965Border Security Force was organised, which would be armed and trained to man the International Border with Pakistan.
11/27/1999BJP recaptures the Jaipur Civic body posts by winning 49 out of 70 seats.
4/10/1996The marketing of Salman Rushdie's novel 'The Moor's Last Sigh' in India was cleared by the Central govt.
6/23/1984An Air-India jumbo jet plunged into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland today, killing all 329 people on board. Indian officials said the crash apparently was caused by a bomb placed aboard the jetliner by a Sikh extremist group as retaliation for an army raid.
1/27/2000K.R. Narayanan, President, opposes any tinkering with the Constitution.
9/11/1906Gandhiji addressed a mass meeting of Indians at Johannesburg, where they took oath of passive resistance against the newly promulgated 'Transvaal Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance'.
11/1/1961First passenger Plane flight AVRO HS748.
10/28/1962US pledges to rush arms to India.
11/16/1998Kiran More, former Indian stumper, calls it a day from first class cricket at Baroda.
12/19/1945Gandhiji lays foundation stone of C. F. Andrews' Memorial Hospital at Santiniketan.