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Historical Event on 8/30/1994
The ruling CPC-led Left Front captures large majority of gram panchayat seats in Tripura civic polls.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/18/1987 | Arun Singh, union minister of state for defence, resigns from the cabinet. |
| 5/1/1983 | V. N. Swamy, pace bowler without distinction in one Test for India, passed away. |
| 4/8/1887 | Ramnarayan Vishwanath Pathak, famous Gujrati litterateur critic, poet and story writer, was born. |
| 8/6/1920 | Film Censor Board at Bombay started working. The first film censored and granted a Censor Certificate No. 1 was a short film of 600 ft., produced by Gaumont Company and it was titled as 'Gaumont Graphic No. 963-964'. The Regional Film Censor Boards were also set-up in Calcutta, Madras and Rangoon. |
| 8/25/1960 | Olympics opened at Rome. |
| 9/24/1629 | Jacques Specx appointed Governor General of Dutch-Indies. |
| 2/9/1929 | Abdul Rehman Abdul Gafur Antule, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra and Central Minister for Health, was born. |
| 12/15/1943 | The Vengeance suffered numerous defects and teething troubles, necessitating temporary withdrawal from the two IAF squadrons, but the problems were eventually mitigated if not eradicated, and No. 8 Sqn flew its first operational Vengeance sorties against Japanese targets from Double Moorings, Chittagong. |
| 3/23/1992 | G. S. Dhillon, former speaker of Lok Sabha, passed away. |
| 4/18/1917 | Gandhi saw one of his testing grounds of Satyagraha in Champaran. He defied section 144 of Criminal Act. |
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