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Friday, August 4, 2023

Today Importance - 4th August

4-August-1845

Firoz Shah Mehta, who published the first Hindi newspaper and one of the founders of the Indian National Congress, was born in Bombay.

4-August-1894

Famous Hindi writer Narayan Sitaram Phadke was born in Karja.

4-August-1906

Dr. Jaswant Singh Parmar, the architect and dynamic Chief Minister of modern Himachal Pradesh, was born in Chanhalag village of Sirmour.

4-August-1914

Gandhiji reached London and formed the Indian Volunteers.

4-August-1923

Nagpur University started functioning.

4-August-1928

Udham Singh, Indian field hockey player (Olympic-Gold-1952, 56, 64), was conceived.

4-August-1929

Famous singer Kishore Kumar Ganguly was born in Khandwa. He is also remembered as a comedian, director and musician.

4-August-1931

Narendra Shankar Tamhane, dependable Indian cricket wicket-attendant (1950), brought into the world in Bombay.

4-August-1933

Gandhiji was imprisoned for a year for violating the restraint order.

4-August-1935

The Government of India received the Royal Assent Act 1935.

4-August-1936

The Government of India Act was approved by the king.

4-August-1937

Eminent lawyer, philosopher, archaeologist researcher and noted historian Kashi Prasad Jaiswal passed away in Patna.

4-August-1956

Apsara, India's first large-scale nuclear power nuclear reactor and the first nuclear reactor in the eastern world, was commissioned at Trombay, Bombay.

4-August-1967

Inauguration of the world's longest and highest masonry dam 'Nagarjuna Sagar'.

4-August-1979

Indian Airlines AVRO-748 crashed into a mountain near Bombay.

4-August-1993

Swami Chinmayananda, an expert in the study of the Bhagavad Gita, passed away at the age of 76 in San Diego.

4-August-1993

Tarabai Bapat, girl in-law of progressive Senapati Bapat, passed on.

4-August-1997

The Government of Maharashtra has appointed Arun Shourie's Dr. B.R. It has been decided to ban the book 'Worshipping False Gods' written on Ambedkar.

4-August-1997

Nilesh Kulkarni turned into the main Indian to take a wicket on his most memorable ball in Test cricket (Colombo).

4-August-1997

The Supreme Court declared that Rashtrapati Bhavan's press release dated 23/1/1992 proposing to confer Bharat Ratna 'posthumously' on Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose should be "held as null and void", as the proposal was rejected by the government. Feelings expressed by people and their family members.

4-August-2000

Justice Brij Mohan Lal was sworn in as the chairman of the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission.

4-August-2000

Sovereign Elizabeth, Sovereign Mother and the last individual from the English Imperial Family to hold the title "Ruler of India", commended her 100th birthday celebration.

4-August-2000

Pranab Mukherjee and S. Congress (I) leader Jaipal Reddy received the Best Member of Parliament award for 1997-98.