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Historical Event on 4/1/1992

The 79,698 crore Eighth Plan launched.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/9/1941Syed Abid Ali, great Indian medium pace-bowler and all-rounder, was born at Hyderabad.
12/16/1867Amy Carmichael, Scotch Irish missionary, was born. She went to India in 1895 under the Zenana Missionary Society, remaining there without furlough until her death 56 years later. An invalid during her last 20 years, she worked to rescue children from the Hindus.
8/1/1988Air Chief Marshal Surinder Kumar Mehra PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/July/1991.
11/21/1899Harekrushna Mahtab, freedom fighter, politician, industrialist and writer, was born at Agarpara district Balasore, Orissa.
9/10/1920Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was born at Hadagali in Karnataka. In 1945 he put forward the ""theory of estimation"" in statistics. His formulae and therorems, for instance the ""Cramer-Rao inequality"", ""The Fisher-Rao theorem"" and ""Rao-Black Wellistaion"" are now part of any standard textbook of statistics. For his significant contributions, Rao received the S. S. Bhatnagar Award, the Meghnad Saha Medal and the Guy medal.
11/12/1958Satyajit Ray gets the award for best direction at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
2/1/1942Lt Col HT Hogan raised the Regiment at Malir Cantonment.
1/1/1934Raju V. Vikram, cricket test umpire for 2 tests from 1984-87, was born at Karnataka.
7/21/1907Gulam Mohamad Bakshi, former Prime Minister Jammu and Kashmir, was born.
8/13/2000The Government announces the opening up of the national long distance communication segment with no restriction on the number of players.