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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
5/9/1753Maharaja Surajmal attack on Delhi.
5/25/19415,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India.
4/26/1999The President dissolves Lok Sabha and orders fresh elections.
5/5/1944Gandhi-Jinnah talks break down on Pakistan issue.
3/11/1971Indira Gandhi wins majority in Parliament.
8/15/1990GOI declares Prophet Mohammed's birthday a national holiday.
5/23/1914The British India Steamship Co. and the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Co. announced their amalgamation at London.
5/29/1906Terence Hanbury White, novelist (England Have My Bones), was born in Bombay.
7/22/1918During the First World War, India's first fighter pilot Indra Lal Rai's plane was shot down in battle by Germans planes near London. Rai had fought for Britisher's Force.
8/8/1967Central government, for the first time since independence, suffered a token defeat in the Lok Sabha.