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Historical Event on 8/4/1906
Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar, the architect of modern Himachal Pradesh and an energetic Chief Minister, was born at Chanhalag village in Sirmaur.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
11/27/1984 | Percy Norris, British Deputy High Commissioner in Bombay, assassinated in Bombay. |
9/7/1995 | Chandrababu Naidu, Andhra Pradesh CM, wins the vote of confidence. He received 227 votes. 31 were neutral. |
3/20/1921 | Dr. P. C. Alexander, Governor of Maharashtra, was born. |
7/7/1999 | M.L. Jaisimha, former Indian Test cricketer, died in Hyderabad. |
8/10/1982 | Memorial of 201 martyrs from Maharashtra inaugurated. |
5/14/1996 | H.D. Deve Gowda elected leader of the third front as its prime ministerial candidate. |
2/17/1917 | Fali Mistry, film director and cameraman, was born in Bombay. |
9/16/2000 | Aparna Popat loses to Kelly Morgan in the first round of the badminton event at the Sydney Olympics. |
3/26/1993 | Surajkund AICC okays dual posts for Narasimha Rao. |
2/26/1966 | Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ""Veer Savarkar"", great revolutionary freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer, passed away at the ripe old age of 83. He was known for the first person to flee by swimming from Port Blair Jail and was associated with right-wing Hindu Mahasabha, started the Abinav Bharat as a secret society of revolutionary terrorists. He was a great Novelist and Poet. |
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