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Historical Event on 4/8/1831

Ram Mohan Roy landed in England.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/27/1976Major-General (Kumari) Gertude Ali Ram, the first women General in Indian Army, was appointed as the first Director of Military Nursing Services at the Army Headquarters.
5/12/1998Bill Clinton, US President, asks India to sign the CTBT.
8/28/1879Battle at Ulundi, Lord Chelmsford beats king Cetshwayo's Zuluz.
9/26/1996Deve Gowda, PM, takes oath as Rajya Sabha member. He was the first PM to enter parliament through RS. Indira Gandhi was already a RS member when elected leader in 1966.
1/22/1963The National Library for the Blind, the first national institute of its kind, was set up at Dehradun.
6/22/1944British 14th army frees Imphal, Assam.
3/21/1996Supreme Court holds that attempt to suicide and its abetment would continue to be punishable offences.
9/6/1947Indian government creates a new ministry of relief and rehabilitation of refugees.
12/31/1943Ben Kingsley Scarborough, English actor (Gandhi, Betrayal, Maurice), was born.
10/21/1934Loknayak Jayprakash Narayan and his friends established the 'Congress Socialist Party' and Acharya Narendra Dev was its President and JP was its Gen. Secretary.