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Historical Event on 8/4/2000

Pranab Mukherjee and S. Jaipal Reddy, Congress(I) leaders, get Best Parliamentarian awards for the year 1997-98.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/4/1991Fourth test of missile 'Prithvi'.
9/29/1970Union Carbide India Ltd in Bombay was commissioned Reclamation Plant Sewage Water of India for commercial use.
9/10/1858Manilal Nathubhai Dwivedi, great author and father of modern Gujarati poems, was born.
7/7/1763Britishers declared Mir Jafer as Nawab of Bengal.
10/24/1934Mahatma Gandhi quits Indian Indian National Congress in struggle over tactics.
11/22/1971Indian and Pakistan governments protested violations of national airspace along the western border, but aerial conflict between the respective air arms began, preceding full-scale warfare between India and Pakistan by 12 days.
7/20/1969M. Hidayatullah became the first acting President of India.
12/9/1997Dr. K. Shivarama Karanth (95), doyen of Kannada literature and Jnanpith Award winner, died in Manipal.
5/27/1990Om Prakash Chautala, former CM, wins Mehem by-election.
3/16/1999The Shiromani Akali Dal creates a record by unanimously electing Bibi Jagir Kaur Begowal as the first woman president of the SGPC.