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Historical Event on 8/8/1923

Floods on the Ganges and Jumna rivers cause loss of life in Benares, India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/16/2000Aparna Popat loses to Kelly Morgan in the first round of the badminton event at the Sydney Olympics.
5/22/1996Ravi Shastri appointed UNICEF's national ambassador for children.
11/3/1984Body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi cremated.
1/26/1930Mahatma Gandhi started the Dandi march to protest against the Salt Act of the British and the same day Indians swore to get 'Total' Swaraj and organised the day as Swaraj Day.
2/24/1922Kanwar Rai Singh, cricketer (batted at MCG Test for India 1948), was born in Darkati, Punjab.
9/11/2000A Delhi High Court exonerates senior Congress(I) leader and former Union Minister H.K.L. Bhagat in a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case in Delhi (in Mansarovar Park in East Delhi on November 1, 1984).
8/19/1757The first rupee coin was minted in Calcutta by the East India Company.
2/25/1963Nehru refuses to recognize China-Pakistan border pact in New Delhi.
4/5/1848Satara kingdom came to end.
9/21/1945British promise India independence.