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Historical Event on 8/4/2000

Pranab Mukherjee and S. Jaipal Reddy, Congress(I) leaders, get Best Parliamentarian awards for the year 1997-98.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/26/1801Supreme Courts had Bengal and Madras by the charter.
1/29/1996S.R. Bommai was replaced by Laloo Prasad Yadav as Janata Dal president.
9/4/1983INSAT-1B runs into snag, its solar array fails to deploy fully.
10/1/1998Anxiety in stock market after UTI's US-64 scheme is reported to have paid dividend, eating out of its capital.
6/15/1991General Election (10th) of India ends. In this election Indian National Congress won.
8/25/1997Konkan Railway line in Goa, except for a short stretch between Pernem and Maharashtra border, becomes operational.
6/29/1893Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, physics, mathematics expert and founder of Indian Statistical Institute, was born at Calcutta.
6/15/1966U.S. resumes full economic aid to India and Pakistan.
1/21/1997Delhi was the first city to use propane gas when 50 autorickshaws were started on trial basis.
1/25/1930Mehdi Baqer, great educationist, was born at Faizabad in UP.