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Historical Event on 4/8/1991
Prafulla Kumar Mahanta,Assam CM, steps down as party chief.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/25/1813 | First boat race started at Calcutta on the Hooghly river where seven sailing boats had competed. |
| 1/18/1970 | Kishan Singh at Cuttack sets record for 50 Km W.in 4.19.48. |
| 2/10/1999 | P. Gopi Chand (A.P.) and Aparna Popat (Karnataka) won the men's and women's singles titles respectively in the National badminton championship in Delhi. |
| 11/30/2000 | Dr. Anil Kakodkar takes charge as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy. |
| 9/18/1867 | Ganganendranath Tagore, great painter, patriot and artist, was born in Calcutta. |
| 5/20/1996 | Janaki Ramachandran, chief minister of Tamil Nadu (1988), passed away. |
| 9/21/1938 | Prof. Raghuveer Singh Rathore, Cricket Test umpire for one test in 1990-91, was born in Rajasthan. |
| 12/25/1994 | Giani Zail Singh, former President of India, died in Chandigarh at the age of 78. |
| 4/23/1992 | Satyajit Ray, internationally famous Indian film producer-director, Bharat Ratna Awardee, passed away at the age of 70. |
| 6/24/1966 | Bombay-New York Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die. |
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