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Historical Event on 7/4/1997
Centre frees from its control nine top public sector undertakings, accounting for over Rs. 10,000 crore profits annually, to become global giants by providing them full financial and operational autonomy. This included newsprint and paper from licensing controls.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/1/1962 | Maharashtra State Finance Corporation started its operations. |
| 11/9/1841 | Edward VII, King of England (1901-10), was born. |
| 1/21/1980 | Assembly elections in Kerala; LDF wins absolute majority. E.K. Nayanar forms government in Kerala. |
| 9/11/1954 | Ram Naresh, editor and Hindi author, was born. |
| 8/13/1911 | Guha Phulrenu, social worker, was born. |
| 1/7/1994 | The whole nation pays homage to Kanchi's beloved 'peripatetic tapasvin sage', Shri Shri Shankaracharya Chandrashekharendra, who died on this date during his 100th year. |
| 1/15/1998 | Binda Prasad Kashyap, 73, CPI leader, passed away in Nagpur. |
| 1/1/1978 | Samrat (Emperor) Ashoka, Air India's first Jumbo-Jet Boeing 747, after explosion falls into Arabian Sea, killing 213 people. Nobody survived. |
| 6/28/1972 | Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis died. He was the first founder of Indian statistical Institute to receive world recognition. In 1958, he started his national sample surveys. A Sample survey means assessing a situation by studying a part of it which would represent the whole, some of his proposals were included in the second five year paln. His original work made him elected as fellow of the Royal society in 1945. |
| 6/28/1972 | Guru Ramdas, Sikh Guru, was born. |
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