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Historical Event on 12/4/1992

RBI devalues Rupee by 1.18% against the US dollar. India emerges overall champions with 10 golds; 8 silver and 14 bronzes in the 4th Asian Junior Athletic meet in New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/12/1666Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj meet Aurangzeb and was arrested.
8/19/1977Earthquake measuring 7.7-8.9 on the Richter Scale hits Indian Ocean. It is believed to be the strongest ever earthquake.
6/18/1658Aurangzeb managed to capture the Agra Fort and later arrested his father Emperor Shahjahan.
12/11/1872Rajkhova Benudhar, modern Assamese poet, was born.
7/23/1903Chandra Shekhar Azad was born Today in 1903
9/6/1903Russia increases import duties on Indian and Ceylon tea in retaliation for British import policies in Moscow.
5/26/1999IRS-P4(OCEANSAT) with an Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) and a Multi-frequency Scanning Microwave Radiometer (MSMR) and two small satellites (KITSAT of Korea and TUBSAT of Germany) launched by PSLV-C2.
10/25/1999Pramod Mahajan, Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, says, ""No objection to Bofors discussion.
10/1/1854Postal stamp introduced in India. These lithographed stamps were of denominations of half anna and one anna. These stamps bore the Head of Queen Victoria with India at top and value at bottom. The half anna stamp was printed between May 5 to July 29 and printing of one anna stamp commenced on July 26.
5/17/1887Ranglal Bandopadhyay, Bengali poet, essay-writer and journalist, passed away.