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Historical Event on 1/4/1993
K. Margabandhu, former UCO Bank chief, was arrested on charges of amassing wealth beyond his means.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/28/1996 | EC orders re-polling in 69 booths in four states. |
| 7/25/1997 | Kocheril Raman Narayanan (K. R. Narayanan) became the 10th President of India. |
| 1/3/1912 | Shantiprasad Jain, famous industrialist, was born. |
| 10/23/1996 | Shankarsinh Waghela (Mahagujarat Janata party), new chief minister, sworn in at Gandhinagar in Gujarat. |
| 5/24/1991 | The body of Rajiv Gandhi, India's assassinated former premier and son of the late Indira Gandhi, was cremated in New Delhi today. He was killed by a suicide bomber in the southern state of Tamil Nadu three days ago. Police suspect that Tamil rebels, fighting for independence in Sri Lanka, carried out the murder. Gandhi's death signaled the end of the Nehru dynasty's rule over India. His two children were too young to assume the leadership of this turbulent nation. There was pressure for Sonia Gandhi to succeed her husband, but she was Italian-born and refused. |
| 6/1/1944 | M. V. Dhurandhar, famous master painter of Maharashtra, passed away. |
| 8/15/1997 | K.Sasikaran gets third IM norm in British Open Chess tournament. |
| 2/17/1976 | New Zealand score their first innings win in Tests vs India. |
| 11/9/1967 | Bhartiya Kranti Dal, a new political party founded. |
| 10/1/1997 | Ordinance promulgated to ban single digit or instant lotteries. |
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