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Historical Event on 4/9/1993

Lt. Gen. B.C. Joshi to be the next army chief.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/13/1917Gajanan Madhav, famous modern Hindi poet, critic and storywriter, was born.
6/10/1984Top army commander killed in Bihar; Sikh troops desert unit.
12/1/1985Rajiv Gandhi concludes the first official visit to Japan by an Indian Prime Minister at Tokyo.
10/29/1930Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru is sent back to prison for two yearrs following a speech he made at Allahabad the day after his release from jail.
11/30/1896Gandhiji sails for South Africa with wife and children.
8/4/2000Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and the last member of the British royal family to bear the title ''Empress of India'', celebrated her 100th birthday.
11/23/1991India decides to upgrade its ties with the Soviet Republics.
3/24/1998200 people are killed in a tornado on both sides of the West Bengal-Orissa border. The toll includes 80 from West Bengal's Midnapore district.
11/25/1999Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam is appointed Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India.
4/5/1919India's first modern shipping company Scindia Steam Navigation's first ship 'Liberty' started its journey. The weight of the ship was 5,940 tonnes.