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Historical Event on 8/1/1879

Achyut Balwant Kolhatkar, famous litterateur and journalist, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/16/1952Sri Ramalu Potiu sacrificed his life for the demand of seperate Andhra Pradesh state for the Telugu- speaking people.
2/23/1946Some 300,000 Indians joined in anti-British demonstrations today in the wake of yesterday's violent riots in the city of Bombay. Indian Navy rebels. A day of terror and rebellion saw Indian Navy members turn against their British officers firing machine guns.
8/16/1980Communal riots continue; death toll in Uttar Pradesh City hits 130.
8/9/1965Pakistan chose to persist while the Indian Army Corps on the ceasefire line got down to neutralizing the Gibraltar Force. As a first step, main infiltration routes were blocked and Pakistan was forced out of the Haji Fir bulge (known to them as Bedori).
3/1/1993India develops Phased Array Radars critical for its ""Akash"" surface-to-air missile and launches its indigenous main battle tank 'Arjun'.
10/31/1919Jaikisan Harivallabhdas, great industrialist, was born.
12/31/1996Gold import policy liberalised.
11/18/1988Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Delhi on a three-day visit.
5/15/1998The Indian Army at Chandilora (Tangmey) captured 15 kg charas, 400 gm dust of charas and 12 kg leaves of charas.
12/1/1994Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.