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Historical Event on 8/4/1928

Udham Singh, Indian field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1952, 56, 64), was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/16/1991C. Achuta Menon, former CM of Kerala, passed away.
1/26/199647th Republic Day celebrated;Chief Guest was Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of Brazil.
4/1/1998Prabhat Kumar, a 1963 batch IAS officer, was appointed as the new Cabinet Secretary of India. He succeeded T.S.R. Subramaniam and held the office till 31-10-2000.
4/2/1948Communist leader S.A. Dange arrested in Bombay.
9/10/1999Sonia Gandhi files her nomination papers for the Amethi Lok Sabha constituency.
2/25/1897A. Vedaratnam, freedom fighter, nationalist and leader, was born in an orthodox Saiva Vellala community.
4/5/1949Indian Boy Scout and Girl Guide were established and renamed as Bharat Scouts and Guides.
4/1/1956Companies Act of 1913 was revised and Indian Companies Act of 1956 came into force.
6/13/2000Major General Manuel Saavedra of Uruguay appointed Chief Military observer of the U.N. Mission monitoring the LoC in Kashmir.
7/4/2000Volvo's Environmental Prize went to Prof. Amulya K. N. Reddy of India and three others for their work on ''How the world's energy resources can be made to suffice as the population grows''.