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Historical Event on 5/4/1998
India is placed on the US Special 309 watch list.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/10/1960 | First Nagpur session of Maharashtra State. |
| 8/7/1925 | Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986. |
| 12/26/1914 | Dr. Shushila Nair, social reformer, was born in village Kunjah, district Gunjra, Punjab (now Pakistan). She dedicated her life to serve Gandhiji and Gandhi Ashram and also performed the duties of Indian citizen by taking active participation in freedom movement. |
| 7/2/1926 | Ram Sewak Yadav, social reformer, politician and leader, was born in Tala Village, Uttar Pradesh. |
| 8/6/1997 | Cabinet approves a proposal to amend the Hindu Marriage Act and the Special Marriage Act, with a view to removing epilepsy as a ground for annulling marriage or for declaring marriage as null and void. |
| 12/23/1912 | Rash Behari Ghosh and Sachin Sanyal threw a bomb at Viceroy Lord Hardinge II in Delhi. He had come to Delhi on an elephant for the initiation of the new capital. The Viceroy was injured in the bomb blast. |
| 5/20/1996 | CPI Leader Indrajit Gupta appointed pro-term speaker in the Lok Sahba. |
| 6/12/1891 | Gandhiji sailed for India and reached in July. |
| 2/16/1927 | Rail service started between India and Nepal. |
| 10/5/1949 | A. K. Pillai, great social reformer and politician, died. |
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