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Historical Event on 4/8/1994

Dr. Wilfred D'Souza re-installed as Goa CM.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/8/1894Lifetime of Swami Chandrashekarendra(1894-1994), venerated Shankaracharya saint of Kanchi monastery in South India.
12/4/1829Britain abolished ""sati"" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre)
9/18/2000President K. R. Narayanan presents the Dada Saheb Phalke award for the year 1999 to film maker Hrishikesh Mukherjee.
12/8/1980Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev visits New Delhi.
3/11/1971Indira Gandhi wins majority in Parliament.
3/16/1946India calls Attlee's independence offer contradictory, 'a propaganda move'.
11/29/1962Haryana achieved their target of supplying electricity to 100\% villages.
6/22/1955Sadashiv Garpatrao Shinde, cricketer (12 wkts in 7 Tests for India), died at the age of 31.
7/31/1992Thailand Airlines crashed in Himalayan Range, 113 persons died.
7/12/1965Sanjay Vijay Manjrekar, cricketer (son of Vijay, Indian middle-order batsman), was born in Mangalore.