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Historical Event on 8/4/2000

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

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/20/1994Indian ship rescues over 2000 Indian nationals trapped in the embattled Yemen's port city of Aden.
7/21/1935Establishment 'Mumabi Marathi Sahitya Sangh'.
1/20/1684Treaty between Marathas and Portuguese.
3/25/1927Leslie Claudius, India field hockey (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56), was born.
6/5/1994India test-fires a missile capable of reaching targets in China.
1/25/1954Manabendranath Roy, famous leader of socialist revolution, passed away at Dehradun.
1/22/1997Former Haryana Chief Minister Bhajan Lal, former Union Ministers Ajit Singh, Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav and five others chargesheeted by CBI in Rs. 3.5 crore Jharkhand Mukti Morcha MPs bribery case.
6/8/1998A Disaster Management Cell (DMC) under the direct command of the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, South Western Air Command, was set up at the Command Operations Room to liaise with the State Government and initiate necessary actions. All aircrafts were evacuated from IAF bases at Jamnagar, Bhuj and Naliya and flown to pre-determined destinations. In this meticulously planned and smoothly executed drill, more than 60 aircrafts (including helicopters) were flown out.
2/6/1939Sayaji Rao Gaekwad III of Baroda, great nationalist and social reformer, passed away.
1/31/1960Milkha Singh at Lahore sets record for 200m in 20.7s.