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Historical Event on 4/8/1887
Ramnarayan Vishwanath Pathak, famous Gujrati litterateur critic, poet and story writer, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/19/1855 | U. V. Swaminathan Iyyer, mahamahopadhyay Tamil author, was born. |
| 5/4/1980 | Coal Mine Worker's Day established. |
| 1/26/2000 | Mr. K. Vadivel Raj gets the 1999 Kabir Puraskar for rescuing 11 persons of another community during caste violence in September 1998 in a village in Tamil Nadu. |
| 4/20/1930 | The Viceroy imposes an ordinance for the suppression of terrorism, following a series of attacks. |
| 1/29/1953 | Indian National Academy of Dance, Drama and Music inaugurated. |
| 2/14/1891 | Stephen Smith, greatest pioneer of air borne mail, was born at Strawberry Hill, Shillong, Assam. |
| 1/21/1999 | Bal Thackeray, Shiv Sena chief, suspends his party's protest against the coming India-Pakistan cricket matches after an urgent meeting with the Union Home Minister in Mumbai. |
| 9/13/2000 | Central Government withdraws the ban on use of non-iodised salt despite protests from the medical community and several state governments. |
| 8/2/1877 | Pandit Ravishankar Shukla, former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, lawyer, politician and social worker, was born in Sagar, M.P. |
| 2/4/1976 | Lok Sabha's life extended by one year. |
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