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Historical Event on 8/10/1927
Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu, first Indian astronomer, litterateur and Urdu poet, was born at Madras.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/5/1967 | Central Hindi Committee constituted under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister. |
| 1/1/1972 | Indian states abolished the previous rulers of Privy purses and privileges. |
| 5/8/1997 | Mumbai High Court holds that Christian women can seek divorce on the sole ground of being subjected to cruelty and need not prove infedidelity on the part of their husbands or desertion. |
| 1/18/1925 | Gajanan Johari, famous Marathi writer, was born. |
| 2/5/1922 | Gandhiji, following Chauri Chaura (U.P.) tragedy in which 22 police constables and one sub-inspector were burnt to death by a mob, fasts for five days and abandons plan of satyagraha movement. |
| 4/19/1950 | Shyama Prasad Mukherji resigned. He was the first Minister of Central Cabinet. |
| 2/1/1930 | A bomb, believed to be planted by Indian nationalists, is found at the British Museum at London. |
| 1/23/1975 | Omeo Kumar Das, one of the great patriots of Assam, passed away at the age of 81. He selflessly worked for the tea plantation workers and made efforts to get them better living standards. He translated Gandhiji's autobiography ""My Experiments with Truth"" in Assamese language. |
| 9/26/1820 | Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (Banerji), great Indian educationist, social reformer, litterateur, father of Bengali prose and who gave the Bengalees their first Primer in 1855, was born in the village of Birsingha in Midnapore district of Bengal. |
| 2/28/1937 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar discovers the white dwarf maximum mass limit. |
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