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Historical Event on 4/7/1998

Soli Sorabjee is appointed Attorney-General of India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/5/1981Rajan Mahadevan recites 31,811 digits of ¦(pie) from memory.
3/18/1996President confers gallantry awards on 65 personnel of the defence forces.
5/8/1930Gandhi followers mob Bombay to protest his arrest.
9/18/1990Devkumar, famous Hindi film actor, died.
7/20/1898Krishna Kanta Handique, great linguist, educationist, principal of J.B. College and Padma Bhushan awardee, was born at Jorhat.
12/14/1985Rajiv Gandhi joins the leaders of Greece, Sweden, Tanzania, Mexico and Argentina in a tele-conference as part of the UN ceremony at which they are honoured with the 'Beyond War' award.
4/3/1978Pandit Hridaynath Kunzru, social reformer, politician, passed away. He contributed greatly to public life, fighting against caste system, untouchability etc. He was closely affiliated to the 'Servants of India Society' with Ghokhaleji. He even declined to accept the ""Bharat Ratna"" award conferred on him.
11/21/1947First Stamp of Independent India was released
4/2/1993MP High Court quashes dismissal of BJP Government under article 356; the Centre decides to move the Supreme Court.
11/23/1994100 killed in a stampede of Govari Samaj people during a protest march towards Nagpur Assembly.