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Historical Event on 6/4/1994

Army successfully test-fires the short range surface-to-surface missile, 'Prithvi'.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/18/1980Naoomal Jeoomal, cricketer (3 Tests for India 1932-34, 108 runs), died.
8/3/1984Bomb attack at Madras airport claims 32 lives.
3/9/1974Guru Amudan Sharma, famous Manipuri dance master, passed away.
5/30/1987Goa becomes the 25th state of India.
1/10/1964Battles between Muslims & Hindus in Calcutta.
1/10/1980President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy invited Indira Gandhi to form Government.
11/27/1994Shyam Vyas, veteran Hindi story writer, passed away.
10/25/1971National Science and Technology Committee established.
11/11/1793English pioneer missionary William Carey, 32, reached Calcutta five months after setting sail for India. Later, Carey founded the Baptist Missionary Society, the first of the British Protestant missions agencies.
10/22/2000The Supreme Court, in a significant order, erases Karnataka High Court judgement discharging former Chief Minister S. Bangarappa and his then private secretary R. Suribabu in a corruption case.