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Historical Event on 1/8/1965

Star of India', world's largest sapphire, returned to American Museum of Natural History.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/6/1976Baliram Bhagat elected Lok Sabha Speaker.
12/17/1990N. Janardhan Reddy sworn in as CM of Andhra Pradesh.
8/13/1943Chintamanrao Deshmukh was first Indian to be appointed Governor of Reserve Bank.
8/13/1943Vasco De Gama, Portuguese navigator who discovered India, died in Cochin.
3/3/1997Indian Socialist Party headed by Arangil Sridharan merges with Lok Sakthi. It was floated by Ramakrishna Hedge.
3/30/1913B. S. Soman, first Admiral of India, was born.
5/2/195340 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.
2/14/1996President dedicates 55,000-seated Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium at Kochi to the nation.
6/10/1984Top army commander killed in Bihar; Sikh troops desert unit.
7/29/1987India and Sri Lanka sign peace accord at Colombo in a bid to end the 5-year old ethnic trouble. This stance taken thereafter by the LTTE added several dimensions to the scenario. It was a multi-purpose role that the Navy has been required to play.