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Historical Event on 6/4/1992

Stock broker Harshad Mehta and his associates arrested.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/7/1912Pannalal Patel, great Gujrati novelist and story writer, was born.
11/22/1913Lakshmikant Jha, Governor of Jammu and Kashmir state and international famed ecomonist, was born.
5/15/1949Matsya Union formally merged with Greater Rajasthan.
6/8/1999ATP announced Paes-Bhupathi as No. 1 ranked doubles team. In individual doubles ranking, Bhupathi and Paes were No. 1 and 2 respectively.
12/11/1976Aliyawar Jung, former Governor of Maharashtra, died.
3/4/1858J. P. Walker, British Officer, along with 200 prisoners who were mainly from the Indian Sepoy Mutiny, sailed from Calcutta to start a new settlement in the Andaman Islands.
1/20/1939Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe, great Indian astronomer, was born.
5/14/1972Fighting between Indian and Pakistani forces along the Kashmir border reported.
1/12/1948Gandhiji decides to fast for communal peace in Delhi for communal riots which broke between Hindus and Muslims at Calcutta. Mountbatten fails to dissuade Gandhiji.
5/1/2000Bidyut Ganguly (64), veteran CPI(M) leader and West Bengal Commerce and Industry Minister, died of severe burns in Calcutta.