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Historical Event on 8/10/1755

Narayanrao Peshwa was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/10/1897Savitri Bai Phule passed away. She played a prominent role in assisting her husband Mahatma Jyotirao Govindrao Phule in education field. She taught in schools for girls and for downtroddens and untouchables.
5/25/19415,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India.
8/6/1994The Muslim Auqaf Trust takes over charge of the Hazratbal shrine after the removal of security bunkers around it by authorities.
10/10/1998Justice Dr. Adarsh Sein Anand was appointed as the Chief Justice of India.
2/14/1929Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
4/22/1958Admiral R. T. Katari was appointed as the first Indian Chief of the Naval Staff.
1/26/1950Government of India accepted the National Emblem. It consisted of Head of Lion which is taken from Ashok piller situated near Sarnath.
3/22/1793Lord Cornwallis promulgated permanent settlement in Bengal and Bihar to fix the revenue amounts once and for all to be paid by the zamindars every year.
8/17/1996CBI seizes another Rs. 65 lakhs from Sukh Ram's residence.
11/9/1999BJP asks Kalyan Singh to step down, chooses Ram Prakash Gupta as his successor.