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Historical Event on 8/5/1965

M. V. Sridhar, cricketer (scored 366 for Hyderabad vs Andhra Pradesh, 1994), was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/18/1994Narasimha Rao decides to retain Veerappa Moily as Karnataka CM.
2/14/199813 bomb blasts take place in Coimbatore an hour before the BJP president Advani was to address a campaign meeting; 52 people killed.
5/1/1992Seperate secretariat was established for primary education.
12/20/1994The last batch of troops of IAF left the capital city of Mogadishu.. Cpl Nasir was left as a lying casualty due to injuries sustained in the RPG explosion by AN-124 contracted by UN.
5/17/1897Dhirendra Varma, famous linguist, was born.
10/14/1998Prof. Amartya Sen (Indian Nobel Laureates), the economist-philosopher, awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his contribution to welfare economics.
1/27/1931Mahatma Gandhi was released from jail, ending eight months of imprisonment for his campaign of civil disobedience against British rule. To avoid demonstrations, Gandhi was released late in the evening from the Yerovda jail and put on a night train to Bombay. There was hope in British circles that the release of Gandhi would end the strife and lead to discussions of dominion status. Gandhi made clear, however, that he would persist in his civil disobedience campaign.
8/30/1903Bhagwati Charan Varma was born.
9/9/1949Hindi was accepted as the national language of India.
7/19/1990Planning Commission decides to make changes in the Gadgil formula for central assistance to States in consultation with states.