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Historical Event on 8/30/1934
Balkrishna Pandharinath Gupte ""Baloo"", cricketer (brother of Fergie, Indian leggie), was born in Bombay.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/13/1965 | Pakistanis bomb Bombay. |
| 1/8/1872 | Hemchandra Goswami, ancient Asamia literature expert, historian, editor and poet, was born. |
| 9/5/1997 | CBI chargesheets former Railway Minister C.K. Jaffer Sharief for possessing assets disproportionate to his income. |
| 12/1/1960 | Air Marshal Aspy Merwan Engineer DFC became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/07/1964. |
| 5/14/1914 | Ekanath Dattatreya Kulkarni, educationist and writer, was born at Bhaloni, Tal Pandharpur. |
| 3/18/1992 | Shreyanprasad Jain, famous philanthropist and industrialist, passed away. |
| 11/29/1953 | Bahuriya Ramswarup Devi, better known as Laxmibai of Bihar, passed away. She will be always remembered for Chapra District Revolt, whereby she tied seven British men and threw them in Narayani River. |
| 1/11/1613 | Emperor Jahangir in a proclamation permitted East India Company to establish factories in Surat. And the first British factory was established under Thomas Aldworth. |
| 8/30/1979 | Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'. |
| 12/28/1981 | Madras-Penang undersea cable commissioned. |
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