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Historical Event on 6/4/1993

L K Advani unanimously elected President of BJP.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/21/1933Annie Besant, great social worker and founder of Home Rule Movement, passed away.
11/15/199237 die in a landslide at Meghamalai near Chinnamanur.
7/22/1702The ""English Company of Merchants"" and the old East India Company was named the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies"". In1833, this name finally changed to East India Company.
2/25/1886Narmadashankar Lalshankar Dave 'Narmad', social reformer and famous Gujrati litterateur, passed away.
10/11/1962Chinese, Indian troops clash on border, claiming 50 lives.
3/31/1993J.N. Dixit, Foreign Secretary, visits Myanmar and signs agreements on trade, control of drug trafficking and separatist movements along the borders.
10/10/197761 people died in an accident between a passenger train and a freight train at Naini.
12/10/1913The Nobel prize for literature was awarded this year to Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali poet from India.
12/16/1867Amy Carmichael, Scotch Irish missionary, was born. She went to India in 1895 under the Zenana Missionary Society, remaining there without furlough until her death 56 years later. An invalid during her last 20 years, she worked to rescue children from the Hindus.
3/9/1951Ustad Zakir Hussain, famous Tabla player, was born.