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Historical Event on 4/8/1937
R. Gundurao, former Chief Minister of Karnataka and senior leader of Indira Congress, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/27/1998 | India's cricket sensation Sachin Tendulkar has an audience with the legendary Sir Don Bradman at the latter's 90th birthday celebrations in Adelaide. |
| 5/18/1974 | Jayaprakash Narayan led a procession against economic conditions in Patna. There was lathi charged and he issued a call for total revolution. He also started the 'Citizens for Democracy' movement. |
| 5/3/1913 | Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, more generally known as Dada Saheb Phalke, was responsible for the production of India's first fully indigenous silent four-reel feature film 'Raja Harishchandra' which heralded the birth of the Indian film industry. The film had titles in Hindi and English and was released on May 3, 1913 at the Coronation Cinematograph in Bombay. |
| 6/9/1992 | Rajesh Khanna (Congress-I) defeats Shatrughan Sinha to wrest the New Delhi Lok Sabha seat from the BJP. |
| 8/26/1914 | Bengali revolutionaries looted 46,000 bullet ammunition and pistols from Calcutta Port for their revolutionary activities. |
| 7/13/1929 | Jatindranath Das started fast strike. |
| 1/18/1978 | Shri Bhim Sen Sachar, freedom fighter, leader and Chief Minister of Punjab, passed away. |
| 11/1/1954 | French handed over their territories of Pondicherry, Mahe, Karikal and Yanon to the Government of India. |
| 12/1/1885 | Dattatreya Balkrishna Kalelkar, famous Gandhian Gujrathi llitterateur and educationist, was born at Satara in Maharashtra. |
| 8/5/1921 | Malhi Govind, modern Sindhi novelist, was born. |
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