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Historical Event on 8/8/1972

Olympics open at Munich (26).

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/28/1972General Insurance Business was nationalised.
2/19/1949Mass arrests of communists in India.
11/19/1996Krishnarao Shiva Shelvankar, journalist and diplomat, passed away at 90.
2/10/1999P. Gopi Chand (A.P.) and Aparna Popat (Karnataka) won the men's and women's singles titles respectively in the National badminton championship in Delhi.
11/7/1862Bahadurshah Jafar -II died at Rangoon in British prision.
11/1/1858Her Majesty Queen Victoria was no longer amused with the Company's loss of control, and India came directly under the Crown of 'Princes, Chiefs and People of India'. Britain Government took over administrative powers from East India Company to rule India.
12/25/1954Manvendranath Roy, great patriot, died.
1/15/1996Restoration of the original name of the city as ""Mumbai"" for Bombay Vide Maharashtra Act No, XXV of 1996.
8/22/1980Kishor Shahu, actor and director, died.
2/9/1992Publication of daily newspaper `Lokpatra' started from Nanded.