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Historical Event on 7/4/1986
Sunil Gavaskar celebrated his 115th Test in cricket at Edgbaston.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/30/1995 | CNN launches a 24-hour news channel in partnership with Doordarshan. |
| 10/21/1997 | RBI de-regulates deposit rates, reduces CRR and Bank Rate (from 10\% to 9) and allows banks to have two sets of Prime Lending Rates. |
| 1/15/1965 | Food Corporation of India inaugurated in Madras. |
| 2/8/1994 | Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432. |
| 10/30/1887 | Sukumar Roy, famous Bengali children's litterateur, was born. |
| 2/28/1989 | S. B. Chavan, Finance Minister, presents a Rs. 7337 crore-deficit budget for 1989-90. |
| 9/10/1999 | Top seeds Bhupathi and Paes finished runners-up in the US Open doubles, losing to Sebastien Lareau and Alex O'Brien in the final. |
| 1/25/2000 | The Centre begins the process of privatising the country's domestic carrier, Indian Airlines, and also approves the sale of majority equity in Modern Foods India Limited. |
| 2/12/1995 | Maramon Centenary Convention, (the biggest Christian gathering in Asia) begins in Kerala. |
| 5/29/1906 | Terence Hanbury White, novelist (England Have My Bones), was born in Bombay. |
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