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Historical Event on 8/8/1923

Floods on the Ganges and Jumna rivers cause loss of life in Benares, India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/24/1995Rishang Keishing (Cong-I) sworn in as the 15th CM of Manipur.
5/1/1996International women's master Anupama Gokhale of Bharat Petroleum becomes the first woman in the history of Indian chess to win an all-India level international rating tournament with her bagging the Mohammed Hassan memorial title.
1/4/1964The First Diesel Engine came out of the Varanasi Diesel Engine Carshed.
8/16/1991Indian Airliner Boeing 737 crashes in Manipur's Churachandpur district killing all 69 aboard.
3/11/1689Sambhaji, Shivaji's successor, who was captured at Sangameshwar, was assasinated in the prison of Aurangzeb by Mughal officer Muqurab Khan.
6/12/1891Gandhiji sailed for India and reached in July.
3/26/1969Romesh Chandra, secretary general of the World Peace Council, receives the Lenin prize
3/26/1969Shahjahan, great mughal emperor of India, was born at Lahore.
8/15/1997The Government bans doctors from determining the sex of the foetus.
8/11/1893First Hindu-Muslim riots in Maharashtra.