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Historical Event on 4/5/1993

G. V. Iyer's Sanskrit film 'Bhagavad Geeta was adjudged the best film at the National Film Awards.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/12/1949Ban on RSS lifted on the assurance that it abjures violence.
2/20/1947British Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced in the House of Commons, London, that Britain will release India before June 1948 and for this purpose Lord Louis Mountbatten was appointed to work as the new Viceroy of India.
4/10/1955India and Vietnam affirm the Panchsheel.
8/3/1939Apoorva Kumar Sengupta, cricketer (1959 Test - India vs WI, without distinction), was born in Lucknow.
12/26/1925Krishna G. Ginde, great musician and singer, was born.
3/11/1863Maharaja Sayaji Rao III, great nationalist and social reformer, was born at Nasik.
3/11/1863Saint Narhari Sonar, a poet-saint of the Varkari smanaj and goldsmith (sonar) from Maharashtra had taken Samadhi. His transition from a staunch Shaiva to a Vithoba-worshipping Varkari, after a miracle that makes him realize that Vithoba and Shiva are one and the same.
1/26/1930Mahatma Gandhi started the Dandi march to protest against the Salt Act of the British and the same day Indians swore to get 'Total' Swaraj and organised the day as Swaraj Day.
1/25/1989Congress-I ministry headed by S. C. Jamir assumes office in Nagaland.
6/6/1867Baba Kharak Singh, freedom fighter, was born at Sialkot.