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Historical Event on 4/8/1929

Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw two bombs on the Assembly Hall.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/4/1966ndo-Pak Summit, the peace talk between Pakistan and Indian leaders, started at Tashkent. The prominent personalities were Lal Bahadur Shastri and Gen. Ayub Khan.
7/28/1946Sister Alphonsa, good teacher and social worker, died at Bharananganam.
5/7/1996Third and final phase of polling begins for 185 LS constituencies and 154 assembly constituencies; 55 to 60\% turnout was witnessed and there was widespread violence in Bihar.
10/25/1999Pramod Mahajan, Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, says, ""No objection to Bofors discussion.
7/16/1969Air Chief Marshal Pratap Chandra Lal, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, DFC. became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 15/01/1973.
7/6/1901Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, great social reformer, politician and leader, was born at Calcutta. He was the founder of the ""Bharatiya Jana Sangh"", of which BJP is the successor party. His father Sir Asutosh was widely known in Bengal.
8/15/1960Maharashtra State Sahkari Grihvitta Corporation was established.
11/29/1952First international organization for birth control founded in Bombay.
5/21/1994Sushmita Sen (Miss India), 18, was crowned as the 43rd Miss Universe.
7/25/1955Indian Government declared in Lok Sabha that Portuguese's were asked to close their offices in New Delhi.