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Historical Event on 1/8/1993

FERA restrictions removed, resident Indians allowed to keep as much as $500.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/13/1984India beat Pak by 58 runs to win the first Cricket Asia Cup in Sharjah.
10/31/1997Autonomous Prasar Bharati with enough muscle to get Government off its back is promised by Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Jaipal Reddy, while announcing changes to Prasar Bharati Act in New Delhi.
5/1/1913Balraj Sahani, famous film actor, was born.
9/12/1905Anglo-Japanese treaty provides for Japan to help safeguard India at London.
9/9/1952Kishorlal Ghanshamlal Mashruwala, great thinker and philosopher of Gandhi era, passed away.
9/12/1998Bihar flood toll mounts to 320.
8/15/1997The Government bans doctors from determining the sex of the foetus.
2/22/1885Jatindra Mohan Sen Gupta, great nationalist leader, was born.
10/16/1990Dr. Nelson Mandela, conferred with 'Bharat Ratna', the highest civilian honour.
7/15/1991The 25-day-old Narasimha Rao government wins a vote of confidence in Lok Sabha by securing 241 to 111; 112 abstained.