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Historical Event on 4/6/1664
Abraham Shipmen died without taking charge of Bombay Islands from Portuguese.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/10/1904 | Raghunath Gopal Kokaje, great Hindi writer, was born at Bhoka, district Ratnagiri. |
| 9/15/1927 | Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena was born. |
| 2/21/1992 | Congress scores nearly three-fourth majority in Punjab Assembly elections. |
| 1/19/1997 | Air India triumphs in the National Women's Cricket championship in Calcutta. |
| 9/16/1929 | Yerramilli Janardan Rao, educationist, was born at Tanuku, (W. Godavari). |
| 2/14/1922 | Bhimsen Joshi, great singer and composer, was born. |
| 7/17/1948 | Govt. announced that all discriminations against women in matter of employment will be done away with and in future, women will be eligible for any public service including administrative sevice and police service. |
| 2/16/1992 | Abbas Musawi, leader of Hezbollah, assassinated. |
| 3/18/1922 | Mohandas K. Gandhi ""Mahatma,"" the great spirit, sentenced by British authorities to six years in prison for sedition at Sabarmati. Gandhi was sentenced just eight days after he was arrested. The British acted hastily after government officials in London and India were criticized for not arresting him sooner. In London, the Secretary of State for India was forced to resign because of the controversy over Gandhi. In India, the arrests of Gandhi and other Indian nationalists had only increased sympathy for their cause. |
| 12/5/1950 | Sikkim becomes a protectorate of India. |
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