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Historical Event on 5/8/1901

British commission claims famine has taken 1.25 million lives since 1899; blames over population.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/8/1993FERA restrictions removed, resident Indians allowed to keep as much as $500.
6/1/1930Baba Adhav was born.
4/4/1990Hindi film 'Bagh Bahadur' received the best feature film award of 1989.
9/19/1937Vishnu Narayan Matkhande passed away.
6/30/1997Gujarat floods claimed 170 lives.
10/19/1921Pandurangshastri Athvle, founder of 'Swadhyay Pariwar', was born.
5/9/1917Fighting breaks out at Kharkwasta in the north-west frontier of India.
2/28/1928C. V. Raman invented 'Raman Effect' of scattered light, which led him in achieving the 'Nobel Prize'.
1/29/1975West Indies won the fifth test against India after winning the exciting cricket series 3-2.
6/20/1756A group of British soldiers along with Halvel were imprisoned by some rebellions in a suffocating cell that gained notoriety as the ""Black Hole of Calcutta."" Most of them died here.