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Historical Event on 8/4/1997
Nilesh Kulkarni becomes the first Indian to take a wicket with his first ball in Test Cricket (Colombo).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/19/1937 | Vishnu Narayan Matkhande passed away. |
| 6/3/1998 | The naval version of the surface-to-air missile, Trishul, is test-fired in Kochi. |
| 11/20/1999 | Melody queen Lata Mangeshkar, senior journalist `Cho' Ramaswamy, eminent jurist Fali S. Nariman and veteran RSS leader Nanaji Deshmukh nominated to the Rajya Sabha. |
| 6/23/1993 | RBI cuts minimum lending rate by 1%. |
| 5/29/1947 | Establishment of Indian Standard Institution. |
| 5/20/1996 | Janaki Ramachandran, chief minister of Tamil Nadu (1988), passed away. |
| 7/5/1984 | Indian Airlines airbus hijacked, lands in Lahore. |
| 3/21/1994 | Pakistan blocks access to Indian consulate in Karachi. |
| 8/17/1970 | The first microwave link, which was set up without foreign assistance, was commissioned between Asansol, Dhanbad and Ranchi. |
| 2/18/1994 | India rejects OIC offer to mediate on Kashmir. |
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