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Historical Event on 8/1/1989

Kirti Vrajlal Ambani,Reliance executive, held in connection with a plot to kill Bombay Dyeing Chairman Nusli Wadia.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/10/1999Congress-NCP talks still on forming a Government in Maharashtra.
12/20/1957Kalinga Prize for 1957 awarded to Lord Bertrand Russell.
8/6/1965Indian troops invade Pakistan.
11/20/1859Elfinstone, Governor of Bombay Province and historian, passed away.
4/8/1929Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw two bombs on the Assembly Hall.
7/22/1956Quake shatters town of Anjar; claiming 117 lives, 800 people were missing.
2/6/1994World Marathi Chember of Commerce' established.
2/6/1994Queen Elizabeth I granted its Royal Charter to the 218 Knights and merchants of the City of London who formed the East India Company. The venture failed to achieve its stated objectives -- it made little impression on the Dutch control of the spice trade and could not establish a lasting outpost in the East Indies.
7/23/1923Navinchandra Chimanlal Pandya, great educationist, was born at Prantij, Ahmedabad.
2/2/2000The Union Information and Broadcasting Ministry clears Ms. Deepa Mehta's film ''Water'' after the director agreed to make some changes in the script.