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Historical Event on 8/5/1969

Bapu Krishnarao Venkatesh Prasad, cricketer (consistent Indian Test pace bowler 1996-), was born in Bangalore.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/5/1992Achyutrao Patwardhan, leader of 'Quit India Movement', died at Varanasi at the age of 86.
6/2/1992The government accepts all the 15 recommendations of the Janakiraman Committee which unearthed massive collusion of banks in the security scam.
4/27/1907Fearing uprising in Punjab, British arm volunteers.
1/18/1930Gurudev Rabindranath Thakur (Tagore) and Mahatma Gandhi met at Sabarmati Ashram.
9/11/1987Mahadevi Verma, Gyanpith award winner and one of the greatest luminaries of modern Hindi literature, passed away.
4/1/1944Japanese troops conquer Jessami, East-India.
12/26/1947K.M. Munshi is appointed Govt. of India's agent in Hyderabad State.
8/7/1887Kasturi Shriniwas Iyengar, politician and journalist, was born.
1/18/1938The last batch of the political prisioners sailed back to the mainland from the Cellular Jail.
4/5/1979First Naval Museum of India established in Bombay.