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Historical Event on 9/4/1967

6.5 earthquake at Koyna Dam in Maharashtra kills 200 people.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/22/1718Durgadas Rathore, social reformer, died on the banks of the Sipra at Ujjain.
8/20/1988Earthquake measuring 6.5 on Richter Scale strikes India and Nepal. Thousands killed.
8/19/1999India's role in ASEAN, ARF is lauded at a colloquium in Singapore.
6/30/1981President's rule imposed in Assam.
12/1/1886Raja Mahendra Pratap, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Musran in U.P.
6/11/1997BSE sensitive index reaches 3927.
12/27/1998Nobel laureate Prof. Amartya Sen unveils his plans to set up a charity trust with the award money for development of education and health in India and Bangladesh.
8/7/1906First Tricoloured National Flag consisting of Green, Yellow and Red, with eight Lotuses on the top, second strip carrying ""Vande Matara"" in Devnagri and the third strip having Sun and Cresent Moon, was hoisted at Green Park in Calcutta by Surendranath Banerjee.
4/4/1994Ravi Naik, Goa CM, resigns.
2/26/1976V. S. Khandekar was honoured by Bhartiya Gyanpeeth Award for the novel 'Yayati'.