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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
5/12/1915Rash Behari Bose, revolutionary leader, left India by boarding a Japanese steamer ''Sanuki Maru'' under assumed name of P. N. Tagore to dodge the British forces.
1/29/1939Radical Subhas Chandra Rose beats Gandhi's candidature to become Indian President.
6/25/1983India won 'Prudential World Cup' Cricket Championship held in England after defeating West Indies.
11/25/1998Nitish Kumar, Railway Minister, lays the foundation stone for the Chengalpattu-Arakkonam gauge conversion in Kancheepuram. The Kanchi Shankaracharyas stay away from the function following a controversy triggered over the invitation extended to them by the Railways.
9/16/1995Prime Minister inducts 16 new members into his Council of Ministers and elevates three deputy ministers to the rank of Ministers of State.
6/30/1930George Fernandes, worker's leader and politician, was born.
12/10/1945Aust Services lose third Victory Test Cricket to India by 6 wkts.
3/22/1906Bhagwant Bhikaji Samant, educationalist, was born.
1/6/1989Satwant Singh (24) and Kehar Singh (54) executed for the murder case of Smt. Indira Gandhi in Tihar Jail at New Delhi.
7/28/1994Sudhakarrao Naik, G. Ramanujam and O. N. Srivastava appointed Governors.