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Historical Event on 8/4/2000

Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and the last member of the British royal family to bear the title ''Empress of India'', celebrated her 100th birthday.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/25/1948French India Peoples' Convention, Pondicherry, passed a resolution for complete merger of the French India with the Dominion of India. - G. V. Mavlankar was elected the first Speaker of the Indian Parliament.
4/5/1993The Left and Democratic Front earns two third majority at the Tripura Assembly elections.
2/27/1996Manmohan Singh presents the vote-on-account as part of the interim budget in Lok Sabha for 1996-97 with a Rs. 5000 crore deficit.
9/3/1993Pawar resigns from Lok Sabha to take up the newly won Maharashtra Legislative Council seat.
10/13/1679More than 20,000 lives were claimed near Massurla Pattanam city, costal area of South India, in a severe storm.
5/29/1991P.V. Narasimha Rao elected President of Congress (I).
3/2/1994President's rule in J & K extended.
3/21/1971Gavaskar scores the first of his 34 Test tons, 116 at Georgetown.
1/10/1998Geet Sethi retains National billiards title in Calcutta.
2/26/1937Manmohan Desai, film producer and director, was born.