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Historical Event on 01/08/1025
Sultan Mehmood completely destroyed the Temple of Somnath.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/11/2000 | Usha Mehta, great Gandhian, passed away. |
| 1/18/1930 | Gurudev Rabindranath Thakur (Tagore) and Mahatma Gandhi met at Sabarmati Ashram. |
| 4/30/1977 | Nine Congress-ruled states placed under President's rule. Janata Party formed. |
| 5/9/1992 | M. J. Pherwani, National Housing Bank Chairman, resigns following his bank's involvement in the Security scandal. |
| 12/30/1971 | Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai, famous nuclear scientist, died. |
| 4/2/1970 | Privy purses and special privileges of former Indian rulers abolished. |
| 9/5/1888 | Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975), panentheist, great renaissance philosopher, eminent writer, free India's first vice-president and second president, was born at Tiruttani near Madras. |
| 12/31/1956 | Pandit Ravishankar Shukla, former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, lawyer, politician and social worker, died at the age of 80. |
| 2/8/1936 | Manohar Shankar Hardikar, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests India vs West Indies in 1958-59), was born in Baroda. |
| 4/8/2000 | Air India wins the Rani of Jhansi women's cricket tournament in Chennai. |
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