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Historical Event on 4/8/1937
R. Gundurao, former Chief Minister of Karnataka and senior leader of Indira Congress, was born.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
12/15/1997 | Orissa Janata Dal unit splits with 29 of 43 Legislature Party members forming 'Biju Janata Dal'. |
1/8/1995 | Madhu Limaye, veteran national leader, socialist thinker, freedom fighter, politician, writer, close associate of Ram Manohar Lohia and Jaya Prakash Narayan, passed away. |
7/13/1999 | Militants attack the residential complex of Border Security Force (BSF) in Madar village near Bandipur and take 12 persons as hostages after killing four. |
3/17/1999 | GM Dibyendu Barua and IWM S. Vijayalakshmi (both India) won the men's and women's titles respectively in the Asian Zonal chess championship in Mumbai. |
10/1/1991 | India takes over the presidency of Security Council with Ambassador G.R. Gharekhan in the chair. |
3/4/1858 | J. P. Walker, British Officer, along with 200 prisoners who were mainly from the Indian Sepoy Mutiny, sailed from Calcutta to start a new settlement in the Andaman Islands. |
5/2/1953 | 40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers. |
3/25/1996 | CBI gives a clean chit to PM Rao in the St. Kitts case. |
1/6/1847 | Saint Tyagaraja, great musician, died. |
7/13/1905 | Premnath Bazaz, famous Kashmir freedom fighter, was born. |
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