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Historical Event on 9/4/1997

Madhavrao Scindia, Tariq Anwar, Meira Kumar, Oscar Fernandes and R. R. Dhawan appointed AICC general-secretaries by party president Sitaram Kesri.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/20/1971Air India started Boing 707 Jumbo Jet flight between Bombay and London.
11/5/1994Russi Modi appointed Chairman of Air India and Indian Airlines.
5/10/198559 were killed and 150 wounded in Sikh attacks.
8/4/1928Udham Singh, Indian field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1952, 56, 64), was born.
7/24/1991Industrial licensing scrapped.
10/22/1999Balayogi is elected as Speaker of the Lok Sabha for second consecutive term.
4/13/1999D. Sripada Rao, former Speaker of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly, is shot dead by People's War Group naxalites near Annaram village in Karimnagar district.
3/29/1970Union Government revises the percentage of reservation in service for SC\STs from 12.5\% to 15\%. Orders to be effective from 25 March.
12/6/1971US bars aid to India for aggression against Pakistan.
4/11/2000Ms. Jhumpa Lahiri, an author of Indian origin, wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her debut collection of short stories 'Interpreter of Maladies'.