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Historical Event on 8/3/1993

Government assures Lok Sabha that it will revive the proposal for a multi-member election commission.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/26/1979Charan Singh launches a new party called the Lok Dal.
11/12/1781Nagapatnam of South India was captured by the British troops.
8/20/1955Jawaharlal Nehru breaks off relations with the Portuguese after the invasion of Goa by Indian nationalists.
9/14/1997Fire and explosions devastate terminals and storage tanks at Visakh Refinery of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation. Toll put at 51.
3/24/1902Anusilan Samiti, a revolutionary organisation, was formed in Bengal.
9/24/1629Jacques Specx appointed Governor General of Dutch-Indies.
1/7/1883Martyer Sohanlal Pathak was born.
12/10/1913The Nobel prize for literature was awarded this year to Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali poet from India.
11/11/1793English pioneer missionary William Carey, 32, reached Calcutta five months after setting sail for India. Later, Carey founded the Baptist Missionary Society, the first of the British Protestant missions agencies.
3/7/1647Guru Dadaji Konddev, master of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, died.