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Historical Event on 4/8/1774

Narayan Rao's posthumous son, Madhav Rao, was seen as a challenge to Raghunath Rao only when he was 10 days old.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/21/1943Hemu Kalani, revolutionary freedom fighter and social reformer, was hanged by British police.
5/16/1933Shani, writer of novel 'Kalajal' and film 'Shaukin', was born.
7/10/1997Malleswari earns India's first gold medal in Asian weightlifting championship in Beijing.
9/2/1918Datta Deshmukh, water expert and President of `Lalnishan Party', was born.
7/15/1987Rajiv Gandhi,Congress President, expels V. C. Shukla, Arif Mohammed Khan and Arun Nehru from Congress for anti-party activities.
12/27/1797Mirza Ghalib, great urdu poet and writer, was born at Agra.
5/18/1901Nibaran Chandra Chakrabarti, great poet and Hindi writer, was born in Brahmangaon, (Dacca).
6/3/1992Kerala CM K. Karunakaran injured in a road accident.
9/11/1906Gandhiji addressed a mass meeting of Indians at Johannesburg, where they took oath of passive resistance against the newly promulgated 'Transvaal Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance'.
9/29/1914Japanese vessel 'Kamagata Maru' reached Baj Baj near Calcutta from Vancouver carrying Indian revolutionaries.