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Historical Event on 4/6/1980

Janata Party splits again; members with RSS links form the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). A. B. Vajpayee becomes its first President.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/7/1631Begum Mumtaj Mahal, wife of Shah Jahan, Emperor of India, passed away at Burhanpur a few hours after the birth of a daughter. She was married in 1612 and the Taj Mahal was built for her.
8/3/199835 persons were killed as Govind Towers at Bandra in Mumbai collapsed.
3/23/1947Lord Mountbatten was sent as a Viceroy to India who was designated to free India.
2/4/1953Indo-Pak talk on Kashmir opened under Dr. Graham in Geneva.
6/11/2000Assailants gun down 12 upper caste persons, including eight of a family in Bihar's Nawada district.
12/19/1961Goa was liberated after Portuguese surrendered to the Indian troops.
6/21/1941Chakravorty Rajgopalachari became the First Indian Governor General of India.
2/20/1968First Edition of 'Amrit Bazar Patrika' weekly was published in Bengali language.
3/5/1999The indigenously-built multi-barrel rocket launcher ''Pinaka'' is successfully test-fired at Chandipur-on-sea in Orissa.
11/5/1999Malcom Marshall, legendary West Indian fast bowler, died at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital after battling colon cancer for over six months.