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Historical Event on 4/5/1944
221 Advance Base Depots laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks and succeeded in safe evacuation of Ordnance stores to an alternate site.
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| 11/19/1999 | New Governors for Bihar, West Bengal, Goa, Manipur and Punjab are named by the Rashtrapati Bhavan. |
| 10/1/1981 | Activists of the Dal Khalsa, who masterminded the hijacking of Indian Airlines plane. arrested. |
| 1/14/1758 | Emperor of England's charter allowed the East India Company to keep to any booty taken in war against the enemies of the king and the company. The confisticated goods, after the war, could be kept with them. |
| 9/5/1872 | V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, great freeom fighter, social reformer, prolific writer, politician and leader, was born at Ottapidaram village in Tamil Nadu. |
| 12/9/1977 | Ravishankar Mahashankar Rawal, famous painter, passed away. |
| 6/24/1966 | Atul Chandrakant Bedade, cricketer (Indian ODI batsman from 1994), was born in Bombay. |
| 8/20/1991 | Indian Oil Executive Director K. Doraiswamy released after 52 days of being in the custody of Kashmir ultras. |
| 8/17/1998 | National Human Rights Commission recommends compulsory registration of marriages in a bid to check child marriages. |
| 3/9/1997 | Mumbai takes Wills Trophy in Mohali. |
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