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Historical Event on 4/8/1993

CBI extensively raided VHP offices; BJP MP Brijbhushan Saren Singh among five arrested.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/20/2000J&K accepts the report of the State Autonomy committee tabled in the Assembly last year.
9/6/1993CPI (M) wrests Congress (I) bastion of Chowringhee in the by-elections to the WB Assembly; Durgapur and Kurseong also won by CPI (M).
10/30/1883Swami Dayanand Saraswati, founder of Arya Samaj, died in Ajmer.
7/1/1989New Governors were appointed in five states. Gen. K. V. Krishna Rao became Governor for J&K.
12/24/1809Christopher ""Kit"" Carson, KY, union brig-general and Indian fighter, was born.
3/20/1993Memon brothers, the prime suspects in the Bombay bomb blasts, escape from Dubai.
8/15/1947Indian Independence Day.
8/7/1925Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.
1/6/1993India and Bhutan sign agreement on the giant Sankosh hydro-electric project.
4/7/1998Soli Sorabjee is appointed Attorney-General of India.
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