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Historical Event on 8/1/1939
Bombay begins Prohibition, first since U.S. law was repealed.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/7/1990 | Govt. of India accepts the Mandal Commission's recommendations and decides to reserve 27\% jobs for the backward classes. Violent protests rock parts of Northern India against Mandal Commission. |
| 11/5/1976 | Lok Sabha votes to extend its own life by another year. |
| 4/1/1976 | Television was separated from radio, and Doordarshan Corporation was established. |
| 3/16/1860 | Dr. W.M. Haffkine, great scientist, bacteriologist and professor, was born at Odessa in Russia. |
| 7/30/1991 | Sabi Fernandes, senior photographer of Indian Express Newspaper Group, died. |
| 11/23/1994 | 100 killed in a stampede of Govari Samaj people during a protest march towards Nagpur Assembly. |
| 9/26/1932 | Dr. Manmohan Singh, former finance minister, economist and Governor of R.B.I., was born. |
| 7/23/1918 | Saraswati Devi (Smt) Illindala, great Hindi writer, journalist and social worker, was born at Narsapur, Andhra Pradesh. |
| 10/17/1817 | Syed Ahmad Khan, great social reformer, educationist, journalist, leader and one of the most eminent builders of modern India, was born in Delhi. |
| 2/3/1977 | Government relaxes rules of Emergency to permit normal political activity and electioneering. |
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