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Historical Event on 6/4/1972
First Environment Day.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
8/30/1979 | Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'. |
9/11/1948 | Indian Government troops enter in the Hyderabad State. |
7/6/1942 | Urmila Devi Shastri, freedom fighter and editor of ""Janma Bhoomi"", died due to non-medical facility and mal-nutrition in Jail. She has also written ""Karagaar Ke Anubhav"" in 1930. She was arrested for Satyagrah and forcefully closing of Foreign Goods. |
4/9/1991 | Rajendra Mathur, editor of Hindi daily newspaper 'Navbharat Times', passed away. |
8/27/1859 | Dorabji Jamshetji Tata, great industrialist, was born. |
8/27/1859 | Humayun died at Delhi. Two days earlier he had slipped on the staircase of a library being constructed at the Old Fort. |
7/13/1974 | India's first one-day international was played vs England at Headingley. |
1/19/1932 | Balgovind Jaiswal, educationist and author, was born at Mhow. |
4/27/1920 | Dr. Manibhai Desai, great Gandhian leader and Magssese Awardee, was born. |
11/9/1990 | Vishwanath Pratap Singh resigned from the post of Prime Minister of India after losing the Vote of Confidence moved against him. |
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