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Historical Event on 5/8/1962

Ravindra Bharti University established in West Bengal.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/29/1930Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru is sent back to prison for two yearrs following a speech he made at Allahabad the day after his release from jail.
5/30/1987Goa becomes the 25th state of India.
4/3/1994S.Bangarappa, former CM, launches his Karnataka Congress Party.
1/17/1941Subhashchandra Bose went underground at Calcutta. He appeared in Moscow after sone days.
11/18/1727Maharaja Jai Singh-II of Amber laid the stone of Jaipur City. Vidyadhar Chakravarty of Bengal was the architect of the first planned city in India.
10/5/1864Cyclone destroyed most of Calcutta city in which approximately 50,000 people died.
5/27/1992M. L. Manchanda, AIR's Patiala engineer who was kidnapped by Babbar Khalsa militants, was found executed.
1/15/1977Rashid Ahmed Siddiqui, modern Urdu writer, passed away.
3/6/1915Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore met for the first time at Shantiniketan.
4/5/1614Indian princess Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.