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Historical Event on 8/10/1998

Sri Bhuteshanandji Maharaj, 97, president of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, died in Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/4/1857Shyamji Krishna Varma, freedom fighter, nationalist and patriot, was born at Mandvi village, Gujarat.
4/22/1991IMF and the World Bank decide to grant $1 billion loan to India.
5/11/1911Shrimati Lalitadevi, wife of second Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri, was born.
10/6/1893Meghnad N. Saha, astrophysicist, was born. In 1920, he developed the 'Thermal Ionization Equation', which has remained fundamental in all works on stellar atmospheres. This equation has been widely applied to the interpretation of stellar spectra, which are characteristic of the chemical composition of the light source.
11/6/1950King Tribhuvana of Nepal flees to India.
2/8/1971Indira Congress wins the mid-term elections for Lok Sabha. Indira Gandhi becomes PM.
3/3/1967India signed the International Space Treaty in Moscow.
7/17/1930Lord Irwin,British Viceroy, allows Indian moderates to visit Gandhi in prison.
1/22/2000India retains the golf title in the SAARC championship in Dhaka.
2/9/1929Abdul Rehman Abdul Gafur Antule, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra and Central Minister for Health, was born.