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Historical Event on 4/8/1992
Congress (I) government led by Rajkumar Dorendra Singh sworn in in Manipur.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/23/1998 | L. K. Advani, Home Minister, is to look after J&K affairs. |
| 8/23/1994 | Former prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif said that Pakistan possessed a nuclear bomb and warned that an attack by India could start a nuclear war in Pakistan. |
| 9/7/1995 | Mohammed Yousef Jameel, BBC stringer and special correspondent of The Asian Age, died in a parcel bomb explosion in Srinagar. |
| 12/12/1959 | Krishnammachari Srikkanth, cricketer (big-hitting Indian opener 1981-92), was born in Madras. |
| 5/24/1991 | The body of Rajiv Gandhi, India's assassinated former premier and son of the late Indira Gandhi, was cremated in New Delhi today. He was killed by a suicide bomber in the southern state of Tamil Nadu three days ago. Police suspect that Tamil rebels, fighting for independence in Sri Lanka, carried out the murder. Gandhi's death signaled the end of the Nehru dynasty's rule over India. His two children were too young to assume the leadership of this turbulent nation. There was pressure for Sonia Gandhi to succeed her husband, but she was Italian-born and refused. |
| 6/26/1888 | Narayan Shripad Rajhans (Balgandharv), famous singer and actor, was born. |
| 12/31/1706 | Francois Martin, founder of Pondicherry and was its first Governor General, died. He founded Pondicherry, the future capital of French India in 1674. |
| 11/29/1869 | Amritlal Vithaldas Thakkar (Thakkar Bappa), social reformer of Gujrat and right hand of Gandhiji in socially segregated Harijans, was born at Bhavnagar, Saurashtra. |
| 2/12/1946 | 14 killed in Calcutta riots; Muslim leader Jinnah threatens civil war. |
| 6/10/1997 | Three Indians - Kumaramangalam Birla, Ratan Tata and Dhirubhai Ambani - figure in the list of Asia's top 100 super rich. |
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