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Historical Event on 5/4/1993

Income Tax exemption limit raised to Rs.30,000; Customs duty on certain drugs reduced.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/6/1953Congress, PSP, CP and Jansangh recognised as All India parties by the Election Commission.
8/10/1905Sundarji Gokuldas Betard, modern Gujrathi poet, was born.
12/14/1999The Prime Minister informs the Lok Sabha that Ram Prakash Gupta has denied the remarks on temple construction.
9/2/1960Dr. Shankar Purushottam Adharkar, famous Botanist in India, passed away.
2/1/1942No.1 Squadron arrived in Burma with its Lysanders, flying tactical recce missions from Toungoo before transferring to Mingaladon with a flight deployed at Lashio.
1/25/1980Awards regarding Public Honour were re-started by Goverment of India; Mother Teresa was honoured by Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan, etc.
7/19/1938Jayant Vishnu Narlikar, great Indian space scientist and mathematician, was born at Kolhapur, Maharashtra.
12/27/1926Imperial Airways announces the first scheduled air service to India from New Year in UK.
10/27/1947Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh's accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting the first Sikhs from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir.
8/15/1996Deve Gowda speaks in Hindi on the occasion of the 50th Independence Day.