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Historical Event on 6/4/1987
A Swedish Government enquiry finds that Bofors paid commission to middlemen for concluding Arms Purchase Agreement with India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/29/1939 | Netaji resigned from the Congress and established his own party, the Forward Block and created a political deadlock in India. |
| 7/1/1962 | Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, great leader, veteran nationalist, politician, professor, physician and architect, passed away. |
| 11/15/1995 | Qiao Shi, Chairman of the standing committee of the Chinese National Peoples' Congress, arrives in New Delhi to advance Sino-Indian relations. |
| 11/5/1976 | Lok Sabha votes to extend its own life by another year. |
| 4/4/1971 | Pakistan reports seizure of nine Indian army vehicles. |
| 11/7/1991 | Salauddin and his wife Neena create a world record by travelling in a Nissan car. |
| 3/15/1997 | Lok Sabha passes Income Tax (Amendment) Bill, 1997. |
| 2/17/1917 | Fali Mistry, film director and cameraman, was born in Bombay. |
| 2/2/1958 | Family tradition still counts for something in Indian politics. Indira Gandhi, the only daughter of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and the granddaughter of a statesman, has been elected president of the Congress party in India. Mrs. Gandhi will be installed into her new office next Sunday, and her job is not expected to be an easy one. The Congress party has been wracked by internal dissension and has been on the verge of collapse. It is hoped that Mrs. Gandhi, who is 41, will breath some new life into the party. Most of the politicians who have been arguing about the future of their party and country are fairly old. Mrs. Gandhi, who is known for her leftist sentiments, is expected to act quickly to put her own mark on party policies. |
| 11/13/1917 | Vasantrao Banduji Patil, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, was born. |
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