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Historical Event on 8/5/1965
Jaya Prakash Narayan was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for public service.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/1/1956 | No. 20 Squadron, Indian Air Force's first jet squadron equipped with Vampires, was formed and christened 'The Lightnings'. |
| 6/3/1895 | Kavalam Madhava Panikkar, historian and Indian diplomat (Asia & Western Dominance), was born. |
| 8/17/1997 | Leander-Mahesh duo wins International ATP doubles in Connecticut. |
| 12/11/1986 | The United Nations Children's fund (UNICEF) completes 40 years of work on behalf of children (11-12-86). |
| 12/9/1873 | Lord Northbrook, Viceroy and Governor General of India laid the foundation stone of the building. |
| 11/24/1991 | Bihar's ruling JD makes a clean sweep of all the three Lok Sabha seats in the by-elections. |
| 10/28/1977 | Shantiprasad Jain, industrialist, died. |
| 9/11/1948 | Mohammad Ali Jinnah, father of Pakistan, died. |
| 3/28/1986 | Extremist Sikhs kill 13 Hindus in Ludhiana, India. |
| 1/15/1997 | Pakistan's pilotless surveillance aircraft intrudes into Indian air space for the first time. |
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