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Historical Event on 4/8/2000

Air India wins the Rani of Jhansi women's cricket tournament in Chennai.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/7/1996Sq. Ldr. Sanjay Thapar of IAF becomes the first Indian to jump from a parachute and hoist the national flag at the North Pole.
4/20/1993Jharkhand Movement suspends its 36-days old economic blockade.
4/11/1942All-India Congress party rejects British offer of dominion status at New Delhi.
4/13/1989Malayalam film 'Piravi' directed by Shaji N. Karun adjudged best feature film of 1988.
11/18/1955Nicolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev, top USSR Soviet leaders, first time came to New Delhi.
10/26/1961Heavy fighting flared up between India and Communist China in their three-year-old dispute over border lines in the Himalayas. Each side accused the other of initiating the fighting that began along the Tibetan border early in October.
7/17/200055 persons die as a Boeing 737 of Alliance Air from Calcutta to Delhi via Patna and Lucknow crashes at Gardanibagh, one km from the runway at the Patna airport.
11/13/1999A woman commits 'sati' in Satpura village in Mohaba district of Uttar Pradesh
5/25/1915Mahatma Gandhi established Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad.
2/25/1977Second satellite Earth Station established at Dehradun.