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Historical Event on 7/4/2000

Volvo's Environmental Prize went to Prof. Amulya K. N. Reddy of India and three others for their work on ''How the world's energy resources can be made to suffice as the population grows''.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/1/1996Motilal Vohra, U.P. Governor, resigns (hawala case).
6/24/1961Indian Manufactured Supersonic fighter HF24 flew took to air for the first time.
12/10/1936England replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI.
12/10/1936Badauni Abdul Kadir, famous Muslim historian, was born.
12/16/1999The second phase of national AIDS programme is launched.
8/20/1988Earthquake measuring 6.5 on Richter Scale strikes India and Nepal. Thousands killed.
12/13/1978Sayyed Avid Husain, litterateur and Padmabhushan awardee, passed away.
4/17/1975Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, India's second president, died at Madras.
2/10/1961P. L. Deshpande played first solo drama 'Batatyachi Chawl'.
9/11/1906Gandhiji addressed a mass meeting of Indians at Johannesburg, where they took oath of passive resistance against the newly promulgated 'Transvaal Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance'.