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Historical Event on 4/1/2000

Disinvestment not distress sell, says Prime Minister A. B. Vajpayee at a conference of chief executives of PSUs in New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/29/1952Amalgamation of the Steel Corporation of Bengal with Indian Iron and Steel Company Ltd. to be effective from 1st January 1953 under the latter's name.
5/16/1975Sikkim annexed principality and was declared as the 22nd state of Indian Union.
11/22/1928British King George confined to bed with congested lung; Queen to take over duties.
2/16/1745Thorle Madhavrao, fourth Peshwa in Maratha kingdom, was born.
6/21/1988Sikh activist bombers kill 30 in Amritsar.
12/30/1964500 people seized by Chinese spies.
1/7/1831Heinrich Von Stephan, famous general of postal union and freedom fighter, was born at Pomerania.
8/9/1942The Congress at its Bombay session passed the famous Quit India resolution, calling for mass struggle on non-violent lines on the widest possible scale, under the leadership of Gandhiji. He stressed that ""We shall either free India or die in the attempt; We shall not live to see the perpetuation of our slavery""; popularly known as ""Do or Die"". But before the Congress could start the movement, the government arrested all the major leaders and the Congress was declared illegal. Spontaneous popular revolts broke out with the battle cry of 'British Quit India'.
6/1/1996H.D. Deve Gowda's 21-member Central cabinet sworn in.
6/4/1936Nutan, film actress, was born.