8th December – What Happened Today In History? | On This Day

What Happened Today In History? 

 Find out what happened on 8th December in History. There are a lot many happenings which had taken place on this date in the pages of Indian History, here we have listed some of the very important events occurred 8th December.

Dharam Singh Deol (Hindi: धर्मेंद्र सिंह देओल, Punjabi:  born 8 December 1935 in Ludhiana, Punjab, India, better known as Dharmendra, is an award-winning Hindi film actor who has appeared in more than 247 Hindi-language films as of 2011. In 1997,
Shazahn Padamsee is an Indian film and stage actress, who has also worked as model. Daughter of noted actors Alyque Padamsee and Sharon Prabhakar, she made her first film appearance in the 2009 Hindi film Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year. After the failure of her début film,
Parkash Singh Badal is an Indian politician who has been Punjab since 2007. He previously served as Chief Minister from 1970 to 1971, from 1977 to 1980, and from 1997 to 2002. He was born December 8, 1927 in the village of Abul Khurana, near Malwa (Punjab), to Raghuraj Singh and Sundri Kaur in a Jatt Sikh family.
Uday Shankar (8 December 1900 – 26 September 1977) the pioneer of modern dance in India, and a world renowned Indian dancer and choreographer, was most known for adapting Western theatrical techniques to traditional Indian classical dance, imbued with elements of Indian classical, folk, and tribal dance, thus laying the roots of modern Indian dance,
Gadowar Singh Sahota (born December 8, 1954) is a professional wrestler known as Gama Singh. Sahota eventually wound up in Stu Hart’s Stampede Wrestling in Calgary. Sahota worked Kuwait, Dubai, Oman, Australia, and Hawaii for Vince McMahon and the WWF from 1980-86. His nephew is professional wrestler Yuvraj “Raj” Dhesi (Jinder Mahal in the WWE)

Death anniversaries on 8th December :

Bhai Parmanand (4 November 1876 – 8 December 1947) was an Indian nationalist. Parmanand was born into a prominent family of the Punjab, descended from the family of the famous Sikh martyr, Bhai Mati Das. His father, Bhai Tara Chand Mohyal, came from Kariala, Jhelum
Chittajallu Srinivasa Rao better known as C. S. Rao (b: 1924 – d: 2004) is a South Indian actor, writer and director. He is son of famous film director Chittajallu Pullayya. He has directed about 70 films in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Oriya languages.
Catholicos Baselios Augen I (26 June 1884 – 8 December 1975) is the fourth Catholicose of the East of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church. Catholicos Baselios Augen I was born on 26 June 1884 at Perumbavoor, Vengola, Ernakulam district of the Indian state of Kerala.to Father Abraham Malpan of Chettakulathukara family

 Notable Events:

 1857 :-  Mohsini from Delhi was hanged in jail.
 1875 :- Tej Bahadur Sapru, great leader, was born
 1879 :- Jatindranath Mukherjee (Jatin Bagha), famous revolutionary, was born in Jessore.

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