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Historical Event on 4/8/1923

Plague in India killed 1,000 in past week.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/20/1960Indian mountaineers reach the peak of Nanda Ghunti for the first time in the Kumaon Hills.
5/14/1995Major train accident near Salem when KK Express collides with goods train killing 51 people.
9/8/1997English chosen as the official language of Dravidian University which was set up at Kuppam (Andhra Pradesh) jointly by the southern states.
1/21/1997Delhi was the first city to use propane gas when 50 autorickshaws were started on trial basis.
5/27/1999Sharad Pawar, Tariq Anwar and P.A. Sangma launch the Nationalist Congress Party.
4/4/1938A. M. Chakrabarty was born in Sainthia at West Bengal. He found that under the optimum conditions of time, temperature and nutrients the Hydrocarbon-eating "qualities'' of four diffrent strains of bacteria could be transferred into one. He also showed that this super-strain of bacteria reproduces itself.
3/3/1939Motganhalli Laxmanarsu Jaisi alais Jaisimha, cricketer (Indian batsman of the sixties), was born in Secundrabad.
8/18/1911Adityanath Jha, former Governor of Delhi, was born.
11/24/1992Lok Sabha approves bill seeking to confer Indian citizenship to a child born to an Indian mother outside the country.
7/1/1997The Sankaracharyas of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam were given a warm reception at the Golden Temple, Amritsar.