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Historical Event on 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.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/9/1916 | Ramkrishna Ramnarayan Ruia, great industrialist, was born. |
| 5/7/1996 | Third and final phase of polling begins for 185 LS constituencies and 154 assembly constituencies; 55 to 60\% turnout was witnessed and there was widespread violence in Bihar. |
| 4/4/1999 | India routed China 5-0 in the Davis Cup Asia Oceania Group I second round play-off in Calcutta. |
| 6/8/1992 | Assets of 31 persons including Harshad Mehta attached. |
| 6/12/1952 | J&K Assembly decided to terminate hereditary monarchy. |
| 2/2/1958 | Family tradition still counts for something in Indian politics. Indira Gandhi, the only daughter of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and the granddaughter of a statesman, has been elected president of the Congress party in India. Mrs. Gandhi will be installed into her new office next Sunday, and her job is not expected to be an easy one. The Congress party has been wracked by internal dissension and has been on the verge of collapse. It is hoped that Mrs. Gandhi, who is 41, will breath some new life into the party. Most of the politicians who have been arguing about the future of their party and country are fairly old. Mrs. Gandhi, who is known for her leftist sentiments, is expected to act quickly to put her own mark on party policies. |
| 3/21/1997 | Jockey Vasant Shinde retires. |
| 1/18/1982 | Six thousand labor activists arrested in two days and national strike called in New Delhi. |
| 4/15/1794 | Moropant Paradkar, great poet of Marathi in Peshwa kingdom, passed away. |
| 11/11/1675 | Aurangzeb executes Sikh Guru Tegh Bahadur thus beginning the Sikh-Muslim feud that continues to this day. |
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