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Historical Event on 1/8/1965
Star of India', world's largest sapphire, returned to American Museum of Natural History.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/19/1953 | State to control production and distribution of minerals involved in atomic energy development. |
| 9/5/1872 | V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, great freeom fighter, social reformer, prolific writer, politician and leader, was born at Ottapidaram village in Tamil Nadu. |
| 1/14/1995 | Ban on VHP re-imposed. |
| 12/21/1990 | Former Union Finance Secretary S. Venkatramanan appointed Governor of RBI. B. Rachaiah and Dr. Sarup Singh sworn in as Governors of Kerala and Gujarat respectively. |
| 1/1/1986 | Fourth Pay Commission implemented. |
| 9/8/1993 | Andhra cabinet reshuffled by dropping four legislators and bringing in 16 new faces. |
| 12/20/1993 | Jaichandran Nair, Colonel Neelkantan, died. |
| 11/3/1988 | Indian armed forces mounted special operations to help the Indian Ocean archipelago of the Maldives and dealt with the 150 sea-borne invaders who stormed Maldivian Capital, Male and soughted to overthrow the democratically elected Government of the Maldives. |
| 1/16/2000 | P. Moses, Indian High Commission Staff member, badly beaten up and abducted by Pakistani intelligence operators in Islamabad. |
| 7/9/1746 | French sailor's fleet reached at the bank of Pondichery in India. |
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