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Historical Event on 9/4/1997
Dharmavir Bharti, great journalist and editor of Dharamyug, died at 6 am.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/21/1988	Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1C) launched. This is operational multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite. It served for only one and a half years. It was launched by European Ariane launch vehicle Ariane-3.
3/26/1997	Russia agrees to help India in developing a state-of-the-art integrated air defence system, even as the two agree to carry military cooperation into the 21st century during the visit of Prime Minister Deve Gowda.
7/30/1987	Rajiv Gandhi escaped an attack on him at Colombo.
3/12/1930	Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad to break salt law. This march stretched of 375 km. was covered in 26 days with 78 followers. The whole of India joined the campaign to boycott foreign goods and refused to pay taxes. Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan or Frontier Gandhi started Khudai Kidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier. The Government went back to its brutal force and about 90,000 people were imprisoned within a year. In Peshawar, the Gharwal regiment refused to shoot a demonstrator. In Nagaland Rani Gaidilita, a 13 year old girl raised the flag against the Britishers and was put into life imprisonment in 1932. Nehru hearing this uttered A day will come when India will remember her and Cherish her. She was released after Independence.
7/24/2000	The trial in the Rs. 133 crore urea scam resumes after about one year in the special court for CBI cases in New Delhi.
6/18/1966	California's hippie subculture converged into a mass of long hair, flowers, and rock music this weekend, as 50,000 flowed into the fairgrounds of the Monterey International Pop Festival. The event featured the largest collection of major rock acts ever assembled; thousands of fans had to be turned away from the sold-out concert. Established artists such as the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, and the Mamas and the Papas received the expected ovations from the huge audience. But the response was equally enthusiastic for performances by Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar and new talents Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix, a young man who played the electric guitar like nobody else.
1/23/1976	Gautam Buddha's lost city of Kapilavastu was found in an excavation.
6/29/1857	Battle at Chinhat (Indies rebel under Barkat Ahmed beat British).
10/10/1977	61 people died in an accident between a passenger train and a freight train at Naini.
5/21/1975	The 26-mile feeder canal from Farakka to the Bhagirathi river dedicated to the nation.

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Historical Event on 9/4/1997 Dharmavir Bharti, great journalist and editor of Dharamyug, died at 6 am.

Historical Event on 9/4/1997
Dharmavir Bharti, great journalist and editor of Dharamyug, died at 6 am.