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Historical Event on 5/8/1998

Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh Prime Minister, gets the Gandhi award for 1998.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/27/1993Rupee made fully convertible in Man Mohan Singh's third successive budget.
9/22/1970Bandopadhyay Shardendu, modern Bengali poet, died.
8/16/2000Rangarajan Kumaramangalam, Union Power Minister, goes into a coma after multiple organ failure.
1/31/1961Dr. Sri Krishna Sinha, first Chief Minister of Bihar, passed away.
9/7/1993India and China sign border peace accord.
3/3/1859A length of 119 miles of line was laid in the North from Allahabad to Kanpur.
3/20/1991Simultaneous polls in Tamil Nadu.
3/20/1991Badauni Abdul Kadir, famous Muslim historian, was born.
9/24/1992India's Leander Paes defeats Britain's Jeremy Bates in the Davis Cup tie in New Delhi.
12/11/19676.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed.