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Historical Event on 8/4/1956

Apsara, India's first large scale Atomic Energy Nuclear Reactor and first in the East World, was commissioned in Trombay, Bombay.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/12/1994UN Secretary General Ghali visits New Delhi.
5/22/1772Raja Ram Mohan Roy, great social reformer, lawyer and politician and founder of Brahmo Samaj, was born at Radhanagar in Hooghly district, Bengal.
2/20/1997RBI relaxes capital adequacy norms for commercial banks.
3/22/1915Dr. Nagendra, famous hindi critic, was born.
9/4/1952India returns Peking's famine-relief aid, saying it had political strings attached.
9/1/1989Yasser Arafat chosen for the 1988 Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding.
11/11/1998India objects to Washington's discrimination in easing sanctions against New Delhi and Islamabad, clamped in the wake of the nuclear tests by the two countries.
12/10/1993Kerala Congress(M) splits; Four MLAs, including Minister T.M.Jacob, expelled.
5/13/1994Telecom sector opened to private companies under the new national policy announced in Parliament.
7/15/1986Sandhya Agarwal made 190 runs in third Womens Test Cricket setting a new record in England.