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

Today In History?

Find out what happened on the 8th of May 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 occur  8th  May

Dr Devi Prasad Shetty is an Indian philanthropist and a cardiac surgeon. Born in a family of Kinnigoli,in the erstwhile South Karnataka district, Karnataka. After completing his graduate degree in Medicine and post-graduate work in General Surgery from Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, he trained in cardiac surgery at Guys Hospital in the United Kingdom.
Swami Chinmayananda (8 May 1916 – 4 August 1993), born Balakrishna Menon (Balan), was an Indian Hindu spiritual leader and teacher, who inspired the formation of Chinmaya Mission in 1953 to spread the message of Vedanta. The organization that was founded by his disciples and led by him, the Chinmaya Mission, has over 300 centers in India and the world over.
Chief Justice Alvin “Bobby” Robert Cornelius May 8, 1903 — December 21, 1991), HPk, was the Pakistani jurist and judge, serving as the 4th Chief Justice of Pakistan from 1960 until 1968. Cornelius was born in Agra, Uttar Pradesh in British Indian Empire, to a Urdu-speaking Christian family, who raised in secular mode
Aruvanpalli Puthiyapurayil Abdulla Kutty was a member of the 13th and 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Kannur Lok Sabha constituency of Kerala and was a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) for over two decades. He had his collegiate education from S. N. College, Kannur and acquired his law degree from Law Academy Law College, Thiruvananthapuram.
Gururaja Shyamacharya Amur born May 8, 1925), a professor of literature, is a leading contemporary writer and critic in Kannada and English. He is a recipient of many prestigious awards including the Sahitya Akademi Award, Da. Ra. Bendre Award, Rajyotsava Award, State award and the Pampa award.

Death anniversaries on 8th May

John Henry Constantine Whitehead FRS (11 November 1904–8 May 1960), known as Henry, was a British mathematician and was one of the founders of homotopy theory. He was born in Chennai (then known as Madras), in India, and died in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1960. J. H. C. (Henry) Whitehead was the son of the Right Rev.
Sir Abdool Razack Mohamed Kt, MP  from 1906–1978) is an Indian born former key Mauritian Minister in the pre and post-independence cabinet of Mauritius. He is celebrated as one of the fathers of the modern state of Mauritius, and he was the leader of the political party called the CAM (Comite D’Action Musulman).
Lieutenant-General Kanwar Bahadur Singh, MBE, (5 August 1910 – 8 May 2007) was a senior officer in the Indian Army. Bahadur Singh was born in the Thikana of Palaitha in the princely state of Kotah on 5 August 1910, the son of Major-General Sir Onkar Singh, KCIE, a minister for the state of Kotah.
Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya (November 19, 1918 – May 8, 1993) was an eminent Bengali Marxist philosopher from India. He made extensive contributions to the exploration of the materialist current in ancient Indian Philosophy. His most outstanding work in this regard was the compilation and exposition of the ancient philosophy of Lokayata,
Zia Fariduddin Dagar (born 1932) is an Indian classical vocalist in the Dhrupad, the oldest existing form of north Indian classical music (Hindustani classical music) and part of the Dagar family of musicians. He taught at the Dhrupad Kendra, Bhopal, along with his elder brother, Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar for 25 years.

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