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Historical Event on 4/8/1993

Dasarath Deb, veteran tribal leader, elected leader of the Left and Democratic Front legislature party in Tripura.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/29/1996Shankarsinh Waghela, Gujarat CM, wins confidence vote.
5/16/1960International Telex Service between India and U.K. started.
3/18/1896Pandit Kunjilal Dubey, freedom fighter, educationalist and politician, was born at Amgaon, District Narsinghpur.
2/22/1977Emergency and 'MISSA' laws were cancelled.
9/10/1920Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was born at Hadagali in Karnataka. In 1945 he put forward the ""theory of estimation"" in statistics. His formulae and therorems, for instance the ""Cramer-Rao inequality"", ""The Fisher-Rao theorem"" and ""Rao-Black Wellistaion"" are now part of any standard textbook of statistics. For his significant contributions, Rao received the S. S. Bhatnagar Award, the Meghnad Saha Medal and the Guy medal.
8/2/1781Sakharambapu Bokeel, great politician in Maratha kingdom, died.
2/11/1847Thomas Alva Edison, great scientist and inventor of electric light lamp, was born at Milan, Ohio.
11/10/2000R.M. Shankara and Rashmi Kumari lift men's and women's title in the World carrom championship in New Delhi.
8/11/1954Madireddy Venkateshwar Narasimha Rao, cricketer (Indian leg-spin all-rounder 1978-79), was born in Secunderabad.
8/28/1906Chintamani Govind (Mama Pendse), great actor, was born.