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Historical Event on 8/1/1995
Vohra Panel submits report, highlights nexus between mafia and politicians.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/6/1997 | Space shuttle Columbia's astronauts return to earth following a two-week science mission on an enquiry awaiting them because of botched satellite release. Columbia and its crew of six, including India-born Kalpana Chawla, swooped through a clear chilly sky and landed on runway at Kennedy Space Centre. Astronauts save runaway $10-million satellite by catching it with their hands. |
| 6/9/1900 | Birsa Munda, freedom fighter and leader, died in Ranchi Jail. |
| 7/5/1997 | Janata Dal splits. Laloo Prasad Yadav forms Rashtriya Janata Dal and Sharad Yadav was elected as the Janta Dal president. |
| 1/23/1965 | Indian first alloy and steel plant in the public sector started in Durgapur; alloy and steel plant limited project started. |
| 2/25/1909 | Gandhiji arrested at Volksrust; sentenced to 3 months. |
| 6/22/1880 | Nilmoni Phukan, greatest social reformer, prolific writer of Assam, poet, editor, journalist and lawyer, was born at Dibrugarh, Assam. |
| 3/27/1845 | Wilhelm Conrad Von Roentgen, professor and first nobel prize winner, was born at Lennep, Germany. |
| 5/23/1931 | Sharad Joshi, famous Hindi poet, playwright and journalist, was born. |
| 5/11/1999 | Supreme Court confirms the death sentence on four of the 26 accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, reduces to life imprisonment the sentence on three others and acquits the remaining 19. |
| 11/16/1989 | 66 out of 71 trapped miners at Raniganj rescued. |
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