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Historical Event on 8/5/1921

Malhi Govind, modern Sindhi novelist, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/4/1997World Bank commits to Haryana a loan of $600 millions (about Rs. 2,350 crores) - largest single bank loan to any State.
3/10/1999Lok Sabha approves the Patents (Amendment) Bill 1999, by a voice vote.
3/12/1930Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad to break salt law. This march stretched of 375 km. was covered in 26 days with 78 followers. The whole of India joined the campaign to boycott foreign goods and refused to pay taxes. Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan or Frontier Gandhi started Khudai Kidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier. The Government went back to its brutal force and about 90,000 people were imprisoned within a year. In Peshawar, the Gharwal regiment refused to shoot a demonstrator. In Nagaland Rani Gaidilita, a 13 year old girl raised the flag against the Britishers and was put into life imprisonment in 1932. Nehru hearing this uttered A day will come when India will remember her and Cherish her. She was released after Independence.
12/29/1984Rajiv Gandhi claims for Indian Prime Minister post after his landslide majority in 8th General Elections.
7/2/1999The Indian Army launches a three pronged attack on Kargil. India is firm on Pakistan pullout from the area.
4/28/1993Troops storm police complex in Srinagar and free officials from the rebelling 2000 policemen.
8/27/1997Daljeet Singh and Debi Bose set national records in the Federation Cup athletics at Chennai in javelin throw and hurdles respectively.
10/31/1990Hindus flee Muslim prorsecution in Kashmir Valley.
11/28/1997Seven-month-old United Front government, headed by Prime Minister I.K Gujral, bows out of office.
5/21/1973Mohan Kumarmangalam, Central Minister, passed away in an air crash near Delhi.