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Historical Event on 8/5/1978
Five died and 70 were injured as upper-caste Hindus clashed with untouchables in Maharashtra.
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| 2/1/1835 | East India company obtained Darjeeling from the King of Sikkim. |
| 8/9/1996 | Sachin Tendulkar, 23, chosen India's cricket captain. |
| 3/25/1928 | S. R. Kulkarni, leader of dock workers, was born. |
| 11/29/1989 | Voters oust Gandhi and Congress party |
| 2/19/1993 | Salseng C. Marak sworn in as the Congress-I CM in Meghalaya. |
| 8/18/1920 | Harbhajan Singh, educationist and writer, was born at Lumding. |
| 5/20/1878 | Krishnashastri Chiplunkar, Marathi novelist and omnicent, passed away. |
| 2/12/1882 | Satyendranath Dutt, famous Bengali poet, was born. |
| 2/7/1864 | P. S. S. Iyyer, famous lawyer and educationalist, was born. |
| 1/28/1846 | British forcibly separate Kashmir from the Sikhs and sell it to the Maharaja of Jammu for 1,000,000 pounds after the Battle of Allwal. |
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