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Historical Event on 8/5/1939

In the first case to be brought under Prohibition laws, a railroad passenger was today convicted of possessing a bottle of brandy in Bombay.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/29/1905Major Dhyanchand was born in a Rajput family at Prayag at Uttar Pradesh. He is remembered as a Master of Hockey. India celebrates this day as National Sports Day.
5/22/1936Lord Brabourne laid the foundation stone of Brabourne Stadium in Bombay.
11/25/1995Namibian PM Hoge S. Geingob arrives in New Delhi.
11/9/1904Panchanan Maheshwari was born in Jaipur, Rajasthan. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers with different embryological studies. He discovered species of plants like ""Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchanani
1/28/1846British forcibly separate Kashmir from the Sikhs and sell it to the Maharaja of Jammu for 1,000,000 pounds after the Battle of Allwal.
1/21/1943Hemu Kalani, revolutionary freedom fighter and social reformer, was hanged by British police.
7/22/1991New industrial policy for liberalisation of economies announced in Parliament.
2/16/1980The first visible Total Solar Eclipse of the 20th Century was seen. This succeeded the total solar eclipse after 22 June 1898.
2/21/1979Yousuf Hussain, litterateur and brother of President Zakir Hussain Khan, passed away.
1/18/1997SC says telephone tapping is violation of fundamental rights but permits it by government in special circumstances.