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Historical Event on 4/8/1998
India enters into a historical partnership with France with the formal launch of a joint programme for restoring and protecting the Taj Mahal.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/7/1861 | Guru Dev Rabindranath Thakur alias Tagore, novelist, painter, educationist and freedom fighter, was born in Calcutta. |
| 4/7/1938 | Kashiram Chhabildas Rana was born in Surat (Gujarat). |
| 7/18/1993 | Rail, road traffic disrupted. |
| 5/17/1974 | Durgadas, famous Indian journalist, passed away. |
| 10/30/1991 | Bansilal Ladda, veteran freedom fighter and law expert, passed away. |
| 12/27/1998 | Churches and missionary schools come under attack and many were injured in a fresh outbreak of communal violence in Surat and Dangs district of Gujarat even as the Bajrang Dal and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad announce the stepping up of their stir against the alleged conversion of Hindus. |
| 1/10/1997 | The second leg of the Indian Satellite circuit held in Ahmedabad. |
| 4/6/1664 | Abraham Shipmen died without taking charge of Bombay Islands from Portuguese. |
| 3/31/1994 | U.R. Rao, retiring ISRO Chairman, announces agreement with Russia for supplying 7 cryogenic engines. |
| 4/8/1923 | Plague in India killed 1,000 in past week. |
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