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Historical Event on 8/1/1993

Jananayak Debeswar Sarmah, great freedom fighter, architect and nationalist, died at Jorhat, Assam.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/26/1976V. S. Khandekar was honoured by Bhartiya Gyanpeeth Award for the novel 'Yayati'.
3/21/1996Supreme Court holds that attempt to suicide and its abetment would continue to be punishable offences.
10/17/1994Kapil Dev's last one-day international vs West Indies.
6/28/1993A multi-millionaire industrialist, main financier of smuggler Veerappan,and 6 Veerappan-men arrested.
7/4/1991Fourth test of missile 'Prithvi'.
7/4/1994Labhuben Mehta, famous Gujrathi author, died.
12/20/1988The Constitution (62nd Amendment) Bill for reducing the voting age from 21 to 18 years receives Parliamentary approval.
5/2/1977C.V. Narasimhan became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 25/11/77).
3/30/1997Congress Party withdraws support to the 10-month old H. D. Deve Gowda Government at the centre, and stakes its claim to form an alternative government.
3/30/1997Queen Elizabeth I granted its Royal Charter to the 218 Knights and merchants of the City of London who formed the East India Company. The venture failed to achieve its stated objectives -- it made little impression on the Dutch control of the spice trade and could not establish a lasting outpost in the East Indies.