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Historical Event on 5/8/1959
Dalai Lama will not be allowed to campaign for Tibetan independence in India. India wants to maintain friendly relations with Communist China.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/28/1950 | Bhagwaticharan, great revolutionary, passed away. |
| 3/31/1997 | Lakhubhai Pathak, prominent NRI businessman who had accused Narasimha Rao of cheating $ 100,000, died in London. |
| 11/12/2000 | Huge voter turnout for Congress Presidential poll. Seven top BSF and IAF officials die after their MI8 helicopter crashes near Lakhpat in the Rann of Kutch in Gujarat. |
| 6/19/1871 | Madhavrao Sapre was born. |
| 4/27/1878 | Calcutta University started Women's Education, and allowed women to appear in the Entrance Examination. |
| 2/6/1939 | Sayaji Rao Gaekwad III of Baroda, great nationalist and social reformer, passed away. |
| 7/8/1996 | Mathematical Olympiad was held in Mumbai - the first time in India (from 08-17, 1996). |
| 11/13/1953 | Richard Nixon, the US Vice President, arrives in New Delhi. |
| 7/2/1928 | Nandkishor Bal, great Odia poet, passed away. |
| 12/15/1859 | S. Kasturiranga Ayengar, owner of Hindu newspaper, was born. |
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