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Historical Event on 8/4/2000
Justice Brij Mohan Lal was sworn in chairman of the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/5/1966 | Jan Congress Party was established in Orissa. |
| 11/15/1989 | Test debut of Sachin Tendulkar and Waqar Yunus at Karachi. |
| 10/5/1990 | Dr. Rajkumar Varma, famous Hindi journalist and playwright, died. |
| 3/20/1904 | Charles Freer Andrews came to India as a Christian Missionary and joined the staff of St. Stephen's College in Delhi. |
| 2/18/1974 | Daniel Moynihan, US ambassador to India, presents $2,046,700,000 cheque. |
| 2/5/1970 | Kauai Aadheenam, Hindu monastery, site of Kadavul Hindu Temple, Saiva Siddhanta Church headquarters, San Marga Sanctuary and editorial offices of Hinduism Today were founded today at Hawaii's Garden Island. |
| 5/5/1903 | Former minister William Petty declares Persian Gulf a part of British dominion in India. |
| 8/30/1979 | Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'. |
| 12/8/1900 | Udayshankar, famous dance master, was born. |
| 2/6/1827 | Shyam Shastri, musician and a great artist of India, passed away at the age of 65 years. |
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