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Historical Event on 1/8/1884
Keshav Chunder Sen, nationalist leader of Bengal, social worker and good orator of Brahma Samaj, passed away at his home in Lily Cottage, Calcutta. He was one of the first Indians to sow the seeds of secularism in our country. He strongly believed that education was the basic necessity to change the society.
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| 9/14/1991 | Assam declared 'disturbed area', army launches 'Operation Rhino' against ULFA militants. |
| 5/17/1993 | Visiting Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres signs an MOU with his Indian counterpart to end nearly 4 decades of inactivity in bilateral relation. |
| 11/9/1960 | Subroto Mukherji, first Air Chief Marshall of Indian Air Force, suddenly died. |
| 11/28/1993 | JRD Tata, 89, passed away in Geneva. |
| 11/18/1772 | Madhav Rao Peshwa (the 4th peshwa ruler) died at the age of 28. Narayanrao succeeded him. |
| 8/15/1990 | GOI declares Prophet Mohammed's birthday a national holiday. |
| 3/22/1932 | Indian Muslims break with Great Britain. |
| 6/9/1986 | ICMR set up a network of Reference/Surveillance Centres for AIDS in almost all states of India. |
| 3/18/1974 | Buddhadev Basu, modern Bengali poet, story writer, playwright and critic, passed away. |
| 4/21/1995 | Medium range 'Akash', surface-to-air-missile, flight trial successful. |
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