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Historical Event on 2/4/1924

Kocheril Raman Narayan, ninth Vice President of India and now president of India, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/25/19415,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India.
2/10/1846British forces under Hugh Gough defeated Sikhs in the Battle of Sobrahan in India.
7/11/1957Aga Sultan Sir Muhammad (1877-1957), Aga Khan III, spritual leader of Ismaeli Muhammedans, passed away. He worked for Britian in the WW I & II. Aga Khan was extremly rich, he once had himself weighed against a sack of diamonds belonging to him. He was also one among those who formed the Muslim League.
5/2/1908Police in Calcutta discover a cache of explosives for use in alleged anarchist plot.
1/2/1990Capt. Nivedita Bhasin, 26, becomes the youngest woman pilot in world civil aviation history to command a jet aircraft.
4/22/1996National Stock Exchange launches a new equity index - the NSE 50.
11/5/1961Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru arrived in New York. This was the first ocassion when an Indian Prime Minister went to United States.
5/29/1972Prithviraj Kapoor, famous film actor, passed away.
6/13/196660 people were killed in a collision between two suburban trains of Bombay.
6/4/1953University of Cambridge confers honorary Doctorate of Laws on J. L. Nehru.