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Historical Event on 4/8/1831
Ram Mohan Roy landed in England.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/11/2000 | Usha Mehta, great Gandhian, passed away. |
| 7/21/1883 | Star Theatre was opened in Calcutta. |
| 10/16/1999 | Indian women claimed bronze in the Asian team chess championship in Shenyang |
| 12/26/1999 | Shankar Dayal Sharma (81), former President of India, died in New Delhi. |
| 6/1/1786 | Madras General Post Office started functioning. |
| 6/9/1992 | Rajesh Khanna (Congress-I) defeats Shatrughan Sinha to wrest the New Delhi Lok Sabha seat from the BJP. |
| 12/4/1829 | Britain abolished ""sati"" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre) |
| 11/7/1998 | The Kalidas Samman awards, instituted by the Madhya Pradesh Government, are presented to Tapas Sen, Akbar Padamsee, Shriram Lagoo, Pandit Jasraj and Kalyani Kutti Amma. |
| 6/9/1948 | Laloo Prasad Yadav, former Chief Minister of Bihar, was born. |
| 9/1/1998 | Tatas withdraw their Rs. 1,475-crore proposal to operate an airline with foreign equity participation in the domestic sector. |
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