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Historical Event on 5/4/1957
Rai Chaudhary Hemchandra, great historian, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/22/1992 | India launches its 'Agni' rocket. |
| 7/12/1932 | The 16,000-foot Shyok ice dam in the Himalayas bursts flooding the Indus Valley at Kashmir. |
| 1/29/1983 | Indira Gandhi names 12 new ministers as Cabinet resigns. |
| 8/15/1947 | On the the stroke of mid-night on 14th August 1947, India became independent and was partitioned. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru became the first prime minister and Dr. Rajendra Prasad became the first president of free India. The mixed economy policy was taken on a five-year plan basis for economic development. On 26th January 1950, India became a democratic and is the biggest democracy of the world today. In 1956, on the basis of languages, India was divided into 14 states and 6 union territories. Today, there are 27 states and 7 union territories. |
| 10/13/1989 | Panchayati Raj and Nagarpalika Bills defeated in Rajya Sabha. |
| 10/3/1996 | National Conference swept back to power in J & K with a landslide victory. |
| 12/15/1999 | The CPI (M) urges the Centre to take over Dunlop India Ltd. |
| 3/18/1991 | West Bengal opts for assembly poll. |
| 4/25/2000 | West Bengal police nab Belal alias Lalu Mian, the suspected mastermind behind the hijacking of IC-814 IA flight to Kandahar last December, from a hideout in North 24 Parganas district. |
| 7/15/1980 | Gajanan Vishwanath Ketkar, editor of `Kesri' and `Maratha', passed away. |
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