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Historical Event on 8/4/1894

Narayan Sitaram Phadke, famous Hindi writer, was born at Karjat.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/29/1914Japanese vessel 'Kamagata Maru' reached Baj Baj near Calcutta from Vancouver carrying Indian revolutionaries.
11/5/1996United Front suffers a setback with one of its constituents, the Madhya Pradesh Vikas party, deciding to walk out and merge with Congress (I).
12/29/19578,000 ton cruiser INS Mysore commissioned.
3/27/1977N. Sanjeeva Reddy elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
1/1/1877Queen Victoria was proclaimed as 'The Empress of India' in Delhi Darbar.
2/13/1968Atal Bihari Vajpayee elected President of the All India Jan Sangha.
10/19/1983Prof. Subramanyam Chandrasekhar shares the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with fellow American Prof. William Fowler.
5/6/1922Chhatrapati Rajarshi Shahu, great revolutionary, freedom fighter and social reformer of Kolhapur, passed away at Bombay. He was 48.
8/17/1780Indian Governor General Warren Hastings duel with Francis to settle personal and official quarrels. Francis was wounded but survived.
7/1/1862Calcutta High Court was established for West Bengal and Andaman & Nicobar Islands. This Court has a Circuit Bench at Port Blair.