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Historical Event on 2/4/1974

Satyendra Nath Bose, a noted mathematician, professor and physicist, passed away at Calcutta. He contributed greatly to statictical mechanics, the electromagnetic properties of ionosphere, the therories of X-ray crystallography and thermoluminescence, and unified field theory. Bose instituted ""Planck's Law and the Hypothesis of Light Quana"" in 1924.

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2/5/1919Sitaram Kesri, veteran Congress leader, was born.
5/5/1966Jan Congress Party was established in Orissa.
12/6/199813th Asian Games inaugurated at Bangkok.
10/21/1989Sukhdev Singh alias Sukha and Harminder Singh alias Jinda sentenced to death for the murder of former Army Chief Gen. A. K. Vaidya.
2/2/1921Mukundrao Kirloskar was born.
3/28/1986Extremist Sikhs kill 13 Hindus in Ludhiana, India.
6/5/1997Brahmapuram diesel power project, KSEB's first thermal power project, situated 25 km from Kochi, Kerala commissioned.
12/25/1964Indian Ocean hurricane kills 4,000 in Ceylon, 3,000 in Indian province of Madras.
2/14/1922Bhimsen Joshi, great singer and composer, was born.