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Historical Event on 6/4/1993

L K Advani unanimously elected President of BJP.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/25/1999An Indian Airlines aircraft with 187 passengers on board is hijacked. The plane was going from Katmandu to New Delhi. It lands near Abu Dhabi after several hops.
5/26/1916Rangnath Manohar Joshi (Nirmal Guruji), Marathi author, was born.
4/3/1946Sagarmal Gopa, devoted patriot, freedom fighter and political worker, was burnt alive.
3/30/1949Dattaram Dharmaji Hindlekar, cricketer (4 Tests for India), passed away.
6/25/1888Lord Louis Mountbatten, British politician, was born.
8/20/1944Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India and Bharat Ratna awardee, was born in Bombay.
1/10/1993India asks Pakistan to reduce its diplomatic strength by 40.
12/20/1929The Indian State Air Service, an extension of Imperial Airways' routes, opens its inaugural service from Karachi to Delhi.
6/26/1983Five hundred killed or missing as monsoon floods hit the Indian state of Gujarat.
2/5/1922Amar Nath Sehgal, sculptor, was born at Campbellpur (W. Pakistan). His important works are ""Voice of Africa (Ghana-1958)"", A Cricketer (1961) and Mahatma Gandhi, Amritsar, To space Unknown (bronze, Moscow-1963)"", etc.