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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 4/8/1674 |
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj honoured Hansaji Mohite with the degree of 'Hambirrao' and appointed him as Chief General of his Army. |
| 4/8/1759 |
British troops chase French out of Masulipatam, India. |
| 4/8/1774 |
Narayan Rao's posthumous son, Madhav Rao, was seen as a challenge to Raghunath Rao only when he was 10 days old. |
| 4/8/1831 |
Ram Mohan Roy landed in England. |
| 4/8/1835 |
Raja Ram Mohan Roy reached England. |
| 4/8/1857 |
Mangal Pandey, the first revolutionary of Indian mutiny and freedom fighter, was hanged till death at Barrackpore. He struck the first bullet during the time of mutiny against the British Empire. |
| 4/8/1887 |
Ramnarayan Vishwanath Pathak, famous Gujrati litterateur critic, poet and story writer, was born. |
| 4/8/1894 |
Lifetime of Swami Chandrashekarendra(1894-1994), venerated Shankaracharya saint of Kanchi monastery in South India. |
| 4/8/1894 |
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, famous novelist and writer of national song 'Vande Mataram', died at the age of 55. Some of his writings are 'Anandmath' and 'Kapal Kundala'. |
| 4/8/1897 |
Henrich Von Stephan, famous General Postal Union and freedom fighter, passed away. |
| 4/8/1919 |
Gandhiji arrested on way to Delhi for refusal to comply with order not to enter Punjab; escorted back to Bombay; outbreaks of violence in several towns. |
| 4/8/1923 |
Plague in India killed 1,000 in past week. |
| 4/8/1925 |
Kumar Gandharva (Shivputra Siddharamaiya Komkali), famous music director and singer, was born. |
| 4/8/1929 |
Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw two bombs on the Assembly Hall. |
| 4/8/1937 |
R. Gundurao, former Chief Minister of Karnataka and senior leader of Indira Congress, was born. |
| 4/8/1946 |
HMS Vengeance, sailed with 22 aircraft of No. 4 Sqn, halted at Singapore for re-fueling and set course for Iwakuni, a port of Kyushu island. |
| 4/8/1950 |
Nehru and Ali Khan sign the Indo-Pakistani Pact. |
| 4/8/1953 |
Walchand Hirachand, great Industrialist, passed away. |
| 4/8/1973 |
India takes control over Sikkim after anti-government riots. |
| 4/8/1985 |
India files suit against Union Carbide in New York for Bhopal gas disaster. |
| 4/8/1991 |
Prafulla Kumar Mahanta,Assam CM, steps down as party chief. |
| 4/8/1992 |
Congress (I) government led by Rajkumar Dorendra Singh sworn in in Manipur. |
| 4/8/1993 |
CBI extensively raided VHP offices; BJP MP Brijbhushan Saren Singh among five arrested. |
| 4/8/1993 |
Dasarath Deb, veteran tribal leader, elected leader of the Left and Democratic Front legislature party in Tripura. |
| 4/8/1994 |
Dr. Wilfred D'Souza re-installed as Goa CM. |
| 4/8/1997 |
Delhi High Court quashes charges of corruption and criminal conspiracy against L.K. Advani (BJP President), and former Union Minister V.C. Shukla in the Jain hawala case. |
| 4/8/1997 |
India creates history by entering the semi-finals of the 12th Jawaharlal Nehru Gold Cup international football series for the first time after holding Ghana 2-2 at Kochi. |
| 4/8/1998 |
India enters into a historical partnership with France with the formal launch of a joint programme for restoring and protecting the Taj Mahal. |
| 4/8/1998 |
Prem Singh Lalpura, who defied the Akali Dal leadership, not taking oath as a Lok Sabha member on denial of a ministerial berth, is expelled by the party. |
| 4/8/1998 |
Sedapatti R. Muthiah resigns as the Union Surface Transport Minister at the behest of his party supremo Jayalalitha. He is involved in court cases. |
| 4/8/2000 |
Air India wins the Rani of Jhansi women's cricket tournament in Chennai. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/9/1875 | The Bombay Stock Exchange, the first in India, was constructed under the shade of a large banyan tree. |
| 9/1/1798 | England signs treaty with Nizam of Hyderabad, India. |
| 1/28/1853 | Jose Marti, great author and politician, was born at Cuba. |
| 5/1/1983 | V. N. Swamy, pace bowler without distinction in one Test for India, passed away. |
| 12/24/1973 | E.V.Ramasami, founder of DMK party, prominent leader, great social worker and revolutionary freedom fighter, died at the age of 94. |
| 3/26/1999 | 14 tonnes of heavy water leaked into the second unit of the Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS) at Kalpakkam during an in-service inspection. |
| 6/28/1921 | Sahityaratna P. V. Narsingh Rao, former Prime Minister of India, was born. |
| 9/4/1967 | 6.5 earthquake at Koyna Dam in Maharashtra kills 200 people. |
| 11/27/1992 | Sachin Tendulkar, 19 years and 22 days old, becomes the youngest cricketer to make 1,000 test runs while playing in Johannesburg. |
| 7/24/1994 | Bodo kills 37 moslems in Bashbari, North Eastern India. |
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