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Historical Event on 4/6/1997
Gen. Kofi Annan,UN Secretary, arrives in New Delhi for NAM conference.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/17/1905 | Judge Mohammad Hidayatullah, Chief Justice and Supreme Court of India, was born. |
| 1/24/1921 | T. N. Raina, former Army Chief and High Commissioner of Canada, was born. |
| 8/29/1993 | Tamil refugees leave Madras for Sri Lanka apparently on their own free will. |
| 11/22/1988 | Baba Amte wins U.N. Human Rights Award. |
| 4/24/1929 | First non-stop flight from England to India takes-off. |
| 2/7/1985 | Uday Merchant, cricketer (brother of Vijay, prolific scorer), passed away. |
| 5/24/2000 | The Supreme Court rejects the proposal for setting up benches outside Delhi. |
| 3/17/1988 | First operational Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1A) launched by a Russian Vostok. IRS system under National Natural Resources Management System (NNRMS) coordinated at national level by the Planning Committee of NNRMS (PC-NNRMS) and the data from IRS satellites is processed by the National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad. SI, a US Company, also receives and markets IRS data worldwide under a commercial contract with Antrix Corporation of the Department of Space. |
| 8/17/1932 | V.S. Naipaul, great Indian writer, was born. |
| 6/23/1935 | Ram Kolarkar, famous marathi author and editor, was born. |
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