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Historical Event on 6/4/1992
Stock broker Harshad Mehta and his associates arrested.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/8/1960 | Subroto Mukherjee died while having dinner in Tokyo, where he had gone with the Air India International Airlines which made its first inaugural flight to the city of Tokyo, Japan. |
| 12/13/1955 | India and the USSR affirm the Panchsheel. |
| 10/22/1908 | John Sutton, actor (Tower of London, Return of Fly), was born in Rawalpindi, India. |
| 8/1/1920 | Under the leadership of Gandhi, the non-cooperation movement was launched against Lord Chelmsford. ""Firmness in truth,"" was his strategy of noncooperation and non-violence against India's Christian British rulers. Later, he resolved to wear only 'dhoti' to preserve homespun cotton and simplicity, followed with grassroots agitation. This began with renunciation of honorary titles like 'Sir' given by the British. Thereafter, it was followed by the boycott of legislatures, elections and other Government works. Foreign clothes were burnt and Khadi became a symbol of freedom. The movement was a great success despite firing and arrests. By the end of 1921, all important national leaders, except Gandhi, were in jail, along with 3000 others. However, in February 1922, at Chaurichaura, Uttar Pradesh, violence erupted and Gandhi called off the movement. He was imprisoned and the movement was over. |
| 11/22/1997 | Yasser Arafat, President, Palestinian National Authority, laid the foundation stone for Indo-Arab cultural centre at Hyderabad. |
| 7/28/1972 | India and Pakistan sign Simla Pact, settling border dispute in Kashmir. |
| 4/15/1927 | Abha Gandhi, servant to Gandhi, was born. |
| 8/1/1927 | Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza, famous Hindi litterateur, was born. |
| 11/5/1999 | India's Aarthie Ramaswamy won the girl's under-18 crown in the World Youth Chess Festival in Oropesa, Spain. Koneru Humpy bagged the silver in girls' under-12. |
| 1/19/1855 | G. Subramaniam Iyer, active worker of Indian National Congress since its establishment, was born. |
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