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Historical Event on 5/8/1992
Eighth Plan outlay increased to Rs. 7,98,000 crores; Public Sector outlay goes up to 45\%.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/1/1972 | All fuel coal mines were nationalised. |
| 10/14/1947 | Narsingh Chintaman Kelkar, great litterateur, politician and editor, died. |
| 1/5/1952 | John Hope Victor Alexander, Viceroy of India (1936-43), died at the age of 64. |
| 1/5/1952 | Vasco De Gama, Portuguese navigator who discovered India, died in Cochin. |
| 1/5/1952 | Pieter de Carpentier, flemish Governor General of Dutch East-Indies, was born. |
| 4/26/1895 | Guru Baksha Singh, modern Punjabi litterateur was born. |
| 9/21/1966 | Mihir Sen swam the Bay of Persia. |
| 5/25/1997 | Seven Pakistani infiltrators are killed in an encounter with BSF in Ranbir Singh Pora. |
| 10/17/1920 | Bhartiya Communist Party was formed at Tashkent with seven members including M.N. Roy, Birendra Chattopadhyay and Abani Mukherji. |
| 8/28/1896 | Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar, great musician and Padma Bhushan awardee, was born at Chembai in Kerala. |
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