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Historical Event on 8/1/1989
Kirti Vrajlal Ambani,Reliance executive, held in connection with a plot to kill Bombay Dyeing Chairman Nusli Wadia.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/17/1974 | Durgadas, famous Indian journalist, passed away. |
| 10/5/1993 | Geet Sethi retained World Billiards title by beating Mike Russel. |
| 10/14/1919 | Raghu Karmkar, famous cinephotographer, was born. |
| 8/16/1958 | Pather Panchali' won the top five awards, including feature length motion picture, and got a honorary mention at the Vancouver International Film Festival. |
| 10/2/1952 | Community Development Programme started. |
| 1/9/1935 | Harishankar Sharma, great educationist, was born at Jaipur. |
| 2/19/1994 | Chambal dacoit Phoolan Devi, the Bandit Queen, was freed on parole after 11 years of incarceration. |
| 9/26/1923 | Dev Anand, film producer, director and actor, was born. |
| 3/19/1911 | Santosh Kumar Ganguly, cricket test empire and 10 test 1955-65, was born in Bengal. He also played Hockey and Football. He is the aurthor of ""Manual of Cricket Umpires"" and ""Technique of Umpiring Hockey"". |
| 4/30/1996 | Re-polling in 445 stations in six states. |
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