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Historical Event on 4/8/1991
Prafulla Kumar Mahanta,Assam CM, steps down as party chief.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/13/1996 | Lok Pal Bill introduced in Lok Sabha. |
| 1/18/1998 | Justice M. M. Punchhi is sworn in Chief Justice of India. |
| 12/11/1991 | Murali Manohar Joshi, BJP President, sets out on 'the Kanyakumari to Kashmir Ekta Yatra' (unity march). |
| 3/16/1880 | Parshuram Rajshekhar Basu, famous Bengali writer, was born. |
| 9/8/2000 | Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, Indian maize breeder, and Dr. Evagelina Villegas, Mexican cereal chemist, jointly awarded the World Food Prize-2000 for their decades-long scientific quest to produce quality protein maize for developing countries. |
| 2/4/1944 | Japanese attack Indian Seventh Army at Burma |
| 9/20/1856 | Narayan Guru was born in Chempazhanthi village of Kerala. Sri Narayan Guru was a social reformer, led reform movement in Kerala, rejected casteism, and promoted new values of spiritual freedom and social equality. He also stressed the need for the spiritual and social uplift of the downtrodden by their own efforts through the establishment of temples and educational institutions. In the process, he denounced the superstitions that clouded the fundamental Hindu cultural convention of caste. |
| 7/30/1992 | The Supreme Court declares that capitation fee in educational institutions is unlawful. |
| 6/21/1994 | The Janata Dal splits again, 14 of its 39 Lok Sabha members seek separate seats as a group. |
| 6/20/1869 | Laxmanrao Kirloskar, great industrialist, social reformer, patriot and founder of Kirloskar Industry, was born at Belgaum. |
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