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Historical Event on 2/8/1959
The Report of the Committee of Parliament constituted under Article 344 (4) of the constitution was submitted to the President.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/8/1959 | Origin of Fasli Era (India). |
| 8/13/1988 | Gajanan Jagirdar, great actor and director in Indian film industry, died. |
| 2/10/1931 | Capital of India shifted from Old Delhi to New Delhi, formal inauguration of New Delhi City took place. |
| 2/8/1921 | Chamber prince of a Royal Proclamation was inaugurated. |
| 5/19/1904 | Jamshedji Nasarvanji Tata, famous industrialist and father of modern technology, passed away at Nauheim, Hesse-Nassau, France. He commenced cotton mills in Bombay and Nagpur and founded the Tata Iron and Steel Company, which is one of the largest integrated steel mills in the world. |
| 6/5/1973 | Madhav Sadashiv Golvalkar, politician and RSS chief, passed away. |
| 1/21/1983 | R. D. Katari, the first Indian Admiral of Indian Army, passed away. |
| 5/2/1953 | 40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers. |
| 1/8/1947 | Rajasthan University established at Jaipur. |
| 3/20/1994 | Pakistan closes down its consulate in Bombay. |
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