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Historical Event on 4/8/1835

Raja Ram Mohan Roy reached England.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/20/1903British to increase size of Royal Army in India.
7/21/2000A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announces a special fund for population projects with the Planning Commission providing seed money of Rs. 100 crores. He was addressing the maiden meeting of the National Population Commission.
6/15/1988Dalai Lama recoganised the rights of China in foreign affairs and Army Operations in Tibet region.
4/22/1983Smt. Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, visited ICMR Headquarters and held discussions with senior scientists of ICMR. ICMR revived research on indigenous drugs/traditional medicine with a new, disease-oriented approach and a Scientific Advisory Group on Traditional Medicine Research was constituted in 1983 but actual studies (Multicentric Clinical Trials, Centres for Advanced Research, Central Biostatistical Monitoring Unit etc.) were started in 1984-85.
10/9/1963Saifuddin Azizuddin Kitchlew, freedom fighter, President of Punjab and the first Indian to win the Lenin Award for International Peace, died.
7/21/1995Sajjad Husain, famous film music director, passed away.
6/9/1752French army surrenders to the English in Trichinopoly, India.
8/10/1904Japanese troups were defeated by the Russian Amry at Port Aurther.
12/22/1928An Alpine Romance', a 709 feet long sound film produced by Universal Picture Corporation, America, was the first sound film censored at Bombay on December 22. The other sound films censored on the same day were 'The Brox Sisters' and 'Bailey and Barnum.'
6/22/1910Mohommed Hussain `Azad', great Urdu poet, eassy writer and critic, died.