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Historical Event on 4/5/1944

221 Advance Base Depots laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks and succeeded in safe evacuation of Ordnance stores to an alternate site.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/14/1993New governors for MP, Bihar, West Bengal & Tripura.
2/18/1905Indian Home Rule Society was founded at London by Shyamji Krishna Varma.
12/1/1951Abanindra Nath Tagore, famous Indian painter and sculptor, died in Calcutta.
10/19/1929Balbir Singh, India field hockey player (Olympic gold 1948-56), was born.
4/6/1934Nilkanth Yashwant Khadilkar, editor of Marathi daily newspaper, was born.
7/16/1954French rule ends in Mahe. De facto power was transferred to the people and the Indian flag hoisted.
5/31/1987Daman and Diu to remain as union territories after Goa becomes the 25th state of India.
10/28/1991Chruchill Alemao of Goa set free by court.
4/11/1930Pandit Motilal Nehru renamed 'Anand Bhuvan' as 'Swaraj Bhawan' and handed it over to the people.
12/20/1978Riots in many Indian cities in protest against Indira Gandhi's imprisonment.