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Historical Event on 8/4/2000

Pranab Mukherjee and S. Jaipal Reddy, Congress(I) leaders, get Best Parliamentarian awards for the year 1997-98.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/16/1997Rajeev Balakrishnan sets 100m national mark in the ITC International Athletics meet.
2/3/1954More than 500 pilgrims died in an accident on the river bank at the ""Kumbha Mela"" in Allahabad.
8/10/1904Japanese troups were defeated by the Russian Amry at Port Aurther.
5/11/1965The first of two cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 people in the country.
2/22/1913Judge Mirza Hameedullah Beg, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born in Lucknow.
2/17/1976New Zealand score their first innings win in Tests vs India.
1/5/1994Jnanpith Award for Oriya Poet Sitakant Mahapatra.
2/14/1925Mohan Dhariya, politician and nature lover, was born.
2/14/1658Dara Sulaiman Shukoh was defeated in the struggle for Delhi throne Shuja's in the battle of Bahadurpur near Varanasi.
8/1/200027 'yatris' (travelers) die after militants attack a ''langar'' in a Pahalgam health resort en route to the Amarnath cave shrine.