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Historical Event on 5/8/1998

Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh Prime Minister, gets the Gandhi award for 1998.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/6/1996SC asks Harshad Mehta to pay Rs. 217 crore to I.T. department.
10/4/1974India in apartheid protest refuses to play South Africa in Davis Cup finals.
11/13/1962Yezdani Gulam, great researcher, archeologist and art critic, died
12/27/1998Nobel laureate Prof. Amartya Sen unveils his plans to set up a charity trust with the award money for development of education and health in India and Bangladesh.
10/11/1993CBI files chargesheet against stock-broker Hiten Dalal and 3 others for defrauding Canbank Mutual Fund over Rs.102 crore.
1/10/1959Martin Luther King, the US Black leader, arrived in New Delhi.
12/14/1990President's Rule imposed on Goa. Caretaker CM Dr. Barbosa disqualified from the membership of Assembly for defection from Congress (I) nine months ago.
6/1/1959National Aeronautical Research Laboratory (NARL) set up under CSIR with temporary offices in New Delhi. Dr. P. Nilakantan is appointed NARL's first Director.
5/22/1996United Front prime ministerial candidate H.D. Deve Gowda unanimously elected leader of the Front's parliamentary party.
9/9/1850Bhartendu Harish Chander, father of modern Hindi literature, poet and dramatist, was born.