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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
12/19/1966Rajesh Kumar Chauhan, cricketer (Indian off-spinner since 1993), was born in Ranchi.
2/10/1999P. Gopi Chand (A.P.) and Aparna Popat (Karnataka) won the men's and women's singles titles respectively in the National badminton championship in Delhi.
10/14/1955Colombo Plan conference held at New Delhi pleas for technological aid to Asia .
4/7/1993Narsimha Rao,PM, arrives in Bangkok on a three-day visit to Thailand.
8/7/1868Pratham Chaudhary (Birbal), modern Bengali poet and critic, was born.
3/26/1972The first International Sanskrit Conference was held by President V.V Giri.
8/12/1973Dayanand Balkrishna Bandodkar, first Chief Minister of Goa, Daman and Diu, died.
4/15/1926Gurvel Singh Pannu, famous Hindi writer, was born in Lauhka, Punjab.
3/22/1902Great Britain and Persia agree to link Europe and India by telegraph.
10/29/1930Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru is sent back to prison for two yearrs following a speech he made at Allahabad the day after his release from jail.