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Historical Event on 1/8/1994

Kamkothi Parmacharya Shri Chandrashekhar Saraswati, 68th Shankaracharya of Kanchi maat and Indian Saint, passed away at the the of 99.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/5/1864Cyclone destroyed most of Calcutta city in which approximately 50,000 people died.
4/27/1993A national credit fund for women called the 'Rashtriya Mahila Kosh' set up.
4/24/1993IA's Delhi-Srinagar Boeing with 141 persons, hijacked by a Kashmiri militant lands, in Amritsar.
3/2/1996Malabar University (Kerala) comes into being.
7/25/1995India reaps a record harvest of food grain of 189.77 million tonnes ('94, 95).
11/12/1997India elected to executive board of UNESCO.
5/10/1917Ramanand Maru Amin, great novelist, was born in Baloor, Mangalore.
1/6/1947All India Congress Commitee accepted the division of country.
1/18/1977Morarji Desai and other opposition leaders were released from jail and Lok Sabha was dissolved by the president during the emergency period.
12/11/1991Murali Manohar Joshi, BJP President, sets out on 'the Kanyakumari to Kashmir Ekta Yatra' (unity march).