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Historical Event on 8/8/1905

Dhyanchand, great Hockey player, was born.

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8/11/2000Koneru Humpy was crowned the youngest British Ladies chess champion at the end of eleventh and final round in the Smith and Williamson British chess championship in Somerset.
10/26/1969Neil Armstrong, the first men to land on Moon by 'Apollo II ', and Edwin Aldrin came to Bombay.
5/8/1930Gandhi followers mob Bombay to protest his arrest.