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Historical Event on 5/4/1849

Jyotirindranath Tagore, Bengali litterateur and poet, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/4/1849Sultan Ghiyasu'd-din Tughluq Shah, emperor of Delhi, passed away.
11/9/1977Keshavrao Bhole, great music director, passed away.
12/15/1999The CPI (M) urges the Centre to take over Dunlop India Ltd.
5/17/1992Import of 106 life-saving drugs and 37 equipments allowed.
5/21/1992Manohar J.Pherwani, 58, Chairman of the National Housing Bank, died.
10/5/1997Dr. Kalpana Chawla became the first Indian woman to become an astronaut. (year 1997 or Oct. 5, 1998)
12/26/1917Prabhakar Machve, famous Hindi and Marathi litterateur, was born.
1/1/1992Petrol and diesel price hiked in 11 states to make it uniform all over the country.
6/3/1998The naval version of the surface-to-air missile, Trishul, is test-fired in Kochi.
2/14/1996Supreme Court orders CBI probe into a housing scam in which 8,700 govt. houses were allotted out-of-turn.