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Historical Event on 4/8/1887
Ramnarayan Vishwanath Pathak, famous Gujrati litterateur critic, poet and story writer, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/18/1995 | The latest deaths in northern India's hottest weather this century bring the death toll to 525 as temperatures hit 113¦F (45¦C) in New Delhi. |
| 2/10/1979 | Itanagar was declared as capital of Arunachal Pradesh. |
| 10/15/1995 | PM leaves for a 12-day tour of Egypt, NAM Summit at Cartagena in Columbia and 50th year United Nations celebrations at New York. |
| 7/30/1933 | Gandhiji informs the Government of Bombay of his decision to march from Ahmedabad to Ras with 33 followers to revive Civil Disobedience movement. |
| 12/13/2000 | Vikram Sood is appointed new RAW Chief. |
| 1/24/1997 | Public holiday in connection with Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose birth centenary. |
| 8/8/1990 | Naval Godrej, famous Industrialist, died. |
| 10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
| 1/15/1998 | Binda Prasad Kashyap, 73, CPI leader, passed away in Nagpur. |
| 1/5/1994 | Jnanpith Award for Oriya Poet Sitakant Mahapatra. |
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