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Historical Event on 5/8/1962

Ravindra Bharti University established in West Bengal.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/15/1949Nathuram Vinayak Godse and Narayan Dattatreya Apte were hanged in Ambala Jail for Gandhi's murder.
3/3/1952The Indian National Congress secured absolute majority in the Lok Sabha in the General elections.
5/28/1968Bhagwan Gopinathji Bhan, was a mystic saint of early 20th century Kashmir in India. He has been called a ""jivanmukta"" (liberated soul) or ""Aghoreshwar"" and his spiritual state has been described as ""Shambhavi Avastha"" (state of Shiva), died. He was a great devotee of Shiva and Shakti and took intense "Sadhana". His disciples and devotees set up an ashram at Kharyar in Srinagar in his name.
1/26/1981Sandeep Patil scores memorable 174 vs Australia at Adelaide Oval.
12/5/1990With the induction of 60 ministers, the Bihar Cabinet becomes the largest ever cabinet in India with a total of 71 ministers.
10/22/1947There were bound to be difficulties in consolidating the loosely federated Indian provinces, princely states, etc. into one homogeneous whole state. Kashmir, after initial dithering, acceded to India voluntarily and by popular consent, then, was invaded by Pakistani tribesmen with the support of the Pakistani government.
2/16/1980The first visible Total Solar Eclipse of the 20th Century was seen. This succeeded the total solar eclipse after 22 June 1898.
1/27/1967Delimitation Agreement for Warfare in space was signed by 60 nations in United Nation.
10/3/1996Second phase of UP polling.
11/25/1948National Cadet Corps was first established.