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Historical Event on 5/4/1960

Washington, Ike signs wheat pact with India for largest U.S. food sale.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/1/1909Gandhiji wrote to Tolstoy regarding Passive Resistance movement.
9/18/1803Second Anglo-Maratha war under Sir Arthur Wellesley resulted in a crushing defeat of the Marathas at Assaye. The British Christians captured Delhi and acquired control of large parts of India.
1/12/2000T. S. Krishna Murthy is appointed Election Commissioner in place of G.V.G. Krishnamoorthy who retired.
6/9/1980M. G. Ramachandran's second AIADMK ministry takes office.
9/10/1858Manilal Nathubhai Dwivedi, great author and father of modern Gujarati poems, was born.
7/16/199917 are killed and over 200 injured when the Delhi bound GT Express collides with derailed wagons of a goods train near Mathura.
11/3/1999Dr. M. S. Swaminathan, well-known agricultural scientist, is selected for the UNESCO Gandhi gold medal.
1/5/1995Jitendra Prasad succeeds N.D. Tiwari as UPCC-I chief.
10/6/1893Meghnad N. Saha, astrophysicist, was born. In 1920, he developed the 'Thermal Ionization Equation', which has remained fundamental in all works on stellar atmospheres. This equation has been widely applied to the interpretation of stellar spectra, which are characteristic of the chemical composition of the light source.
7/1/1999Two leaders of Hindu Makkal Katchi (HMK) are detained under National Security Act (NSA).