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Historical Event on 8/5/1981

Jagjivan Ram heads breakaway Congress(U) and calls new party Congress (J).

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/4/1923Nagpur University started working.
7/1/1852For the first time in Asia, Postal Stamp for the general public was issued by Sindh Province in Karachi.
3/12/1941Chinese engineers leave to survey a route for the proposed 1,000-mile-long highway from Ningyuan, China to Assam, India.
10/23/1999V. P. Singh, former Prime Minister, tops the list of star witnesses in Bofors case.
1/12/1997Paes-Bhupathi win doubles title in the Singapore Open Challenger hardcourt tennis.
1/24/1995Congress (I) suspends Arjun Singh from the party.
3/27/1989T. N. Seshan was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 23-12-1989.
6/17/1976Montreal Olympics opens.
11/15/1999Notorious criminal Surendra alias Dolatpuri is shot dead in a police encounter at Khatavli, Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh.
3/17/1920Mujiburr Rahman, the first Prime Minister of Bangladesh, was born in Tungipara now in Bangladesh.