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Historical Event on 04/07/1541
Father Francis Xavier, Spanish founder of the Jesuits, 35, and three friends set sail from Lisbon, Portugal for Goa. They became the first Roman Catholic missionaries to travel to India.
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| 12/11/1996 | T. N. Seshan retires. M. S. Gill becomes the new election Chief Election Commissioner. |
| 1/20/1959 | Tej Bahadur Sapru passed away. |
| 9/18/1996 | Suresh Mehta ministry wins the confidence vote in Gujarat . |
| 10/31/1966 | Mihir Sen swam Panama Canal in 34 hours 15 minutes. |
| 12/11/1991 | The centre notifies the interim order of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal directing Karnataka to release 205 tmc ft of water to Tamil Nadu. |
| 1/15/1887 | Shri Tripuraneni Ramaswamy Chowdary, freedom fighter and a great native poet, was born in village Angaluru, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh. |
| 1/16/1896 | Jaideva Singh, famous musician and educationist, was born Shohratgarh, U.P. |
| 4/22/1930 | Civil Disobedience at Dandi, 6th April 1930 and Civil Disobedience at Bombay, 7th April 1930, both documentary films produced by Krishna Film Co., Bombay, were prohibited by Censor Board on April 22, on the grounds that they were calculated to foster resistance to Government and to promote a breach of Law and Order. |
| 2/24/1948 | The State of Junagarh, whose accession to India was protested by Pakistan in the UN Security Council, voted in favour of India in a popular referendum held on 20 February. |
| 2/16/1980 | The first visible Total Solar Eclipse of the 20th Century was seen. This succeeded the total solar eclipse after 22 June 1898. |
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