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Historical Event on 4/7/1986
Charles Sobhraj and his associate David Hall were nabbed at Mapusa in Goa.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/21/1903 | Bhalchandra Digambar Garware, famous industrailist, was born. |
| 12/21/1903 | Muiz ud din Qaiqabad, was the tenth sultan of the Mamluk dynasty (Slave dynasty), was killed in his bed. He was proved to be an inefficient ruler. |
| 1/19/1996 | Upendranath 'Ashk', noted Hindi literary figure known for his disputed writings, passed away. |
| 12/24/1984 | Eigth General Elections of India began . |
| 12/24/1984 | Chandragupta I succeeded his father Ghatotkacha at Patliputra. He is known for establishing the Gupta dynasty. Gupta era begins. |
| 8/5/1950 | Gopinath Bardoloi, architect of modern Assam, freedom fighter and leader, passed away. |
| 1/29/1976 | Parliamenentary Committee on official language constituted. The Committee has since then submitted six parts of its report and Presidential orders have been issued on first five parts of it. The sixth part is in print. |
| 2/27/1941 | Paddy Ashton, first leader of Britain's Social and Liberal Democrat Party, was born in New Delhi, India. |
| 10/9/2000 | The Centre appoints Yogendra Narain as the new defence secretary and K. Sibal as the secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs while effecting a major bureaucratic reshuffle. |
| 8/17/1970 | The first microwave link, which was set up without foreign assistance, was commissioned between Asansol, Dhanbad and Ranchi. |
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