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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 |
| 9/30/1992 | Laurie Baker wins Rs. 25 lakh UN World Habitat award. |
| 1/23/1960 | Laxmi Narayan Garde, famous journalist related to ""Venkateshwar Samachar"", ""Bangawasi"", ""Bharat Mitra"" and ""Navjeevan"" newspapers, passed away. |
| 11/20/1967 | First Indian made Sounding Rocket 'Rohini RH75' launched into space from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station. |
| 9/11/1893 | Swami Vivekananda represented Hinduism at Chicago's Parliament of the World's Religions, the first ever inter-faith gathering, dramatically enlightening Western opinion to the depth of Hindu philosophy and culture. He spoke for the first time in Chicago. |
| 6/2/1965 | The second of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges R India). |
| 8/14/1942 | Usha Mehta, freedom fighter, started broadcasting from a secret transmitter on the wave length of 42.84 meters. This channel was used for freedom movement telecasts. |
| 5/27/1990 | Om Prakash Chautala, former CM, wins Mehem by-election. |
| 1/5/1968 | Government of India accepts the administrative reforms commission's recommendation to appoint a Lok Pal. |
| 2/4/1991 | An abortive bid to hijack a Calcutta-Agartala flight by a 24-year old youth. |
| 6/9/1997 | At least 50 persons were killed and 5,000 families affected in a landslide triggered by heavy rains in Gangktok. |
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