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Historical Event on 2/8/1943
Subhashchandra Bose started his journey to Japan from Kiel along with his secretary Major Abid Hassan in a submarine.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/4/1995 | Rajan Pillai, business tycoon and biscuit king of India, who was convicted by a Singapore court for multi-million dollar fraud, was arrested in New Delhi. |
| 10/9/1945 | British troops occupy Andaman in Gulf of Bengal. |
| 12/19/1919 | Sunil Kumar Banerjee, cricket Test Umpire for 1 test from 1963-64, was born at Bengal. |
| 4/30/1870 | Dadasaheb Phalke alias Dhundiraj Gobind Phalke was born at Trymbakeshwar near Nasik, Maharashtra. He is remembered as the 'Father of Indian Cinema'. He produced India's first feature Film, 'Raja Harishchandra' and founded Phalke & Co. at Bombay. He was a director, producer, writer, editor & laboratorian, portrait photographer and also a scene-painter. |
| 11/27/1888 | Ganesh Vasudeo Malvankar, great social worker, educationist, writer and first speaker of Lok Sabha, was born in Baroda. |
| 7/21/1977 | K.S. Hegde elected Lok Sabha Speaker. |
| 11/15/1992 | Praveen Amre scores century (103) on Test Cricket debut vs South Africa at Durban |
| 11/29/1948 | Assembly bans discrimination against untouchables. |
| 2/3/1905 | Sir Padampat Singhania, great industrialist, was born at Kanpur. |
| 11/24/1924 | Rasipuram Krishnaswami Laxman, famous political cartoonist, was born. |
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