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Historical Event on 8/5/1939
In the first case to be brought under Prohibition laws, a railroad passenger was today convicted of possessing a bottle of brandy in Bombay.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/25/1879 | Sri Thanwardas Lilaram Vaswani, professor, saint poet, great orator and prolific writer, was born in Hyderabad, Sindh (now in Pakistan). He was the founder of Mira Movement. |
| 6/3/1995 | President's rule in J&K extended for another 6 months. |
| 9/3/1997 | Indore bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court directs the state government to pay an ex-gratia of Rs. 50,000 to the family of a college student, who had committed suicide following ragging in the hostel. |
| 9/29/1994 | Cable Television Regulation Ordinance issued. |
| 3/27/1997 | South African President Nelson Mandela arrives in New Delhi on official visit. |
| 2/27/1999 | Union Budget presented. Fiscal deficit cut to 4.4 per cent. |
| 11/22/1990 | Laloo Prasad Yadav, Bihar CM, wins confidence motion (202-108). |
| 5/11/1991 | Naxalities in Andhra abduct P. Sudhir Kumar, son of the former Union Minister Shiv Shankar. |
| 7/27/1986 | The Supreme Court orders all-India test for medical seats. |
| 7/13/1974 | India's first one-day international was played vs England at Headingley. |
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