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Historical Event on 4/5/1989

Pannalal Patel, great Gujrati litterateur, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/25/1876Mohamad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, was born.
10/2/1997At least 50 Pakistan soldiers were killed and several injured in a retaliatory firing by Indian troops in Nowgam, Uri and Kupwara sectors. Firing had been intermittent along LoC.
8/27/1994Indian soldiers and Muslim militants clash in Kashmir.
10/23/1883Mirza Mohammad Ismile, Diwan of Mysore and Prime Minister of Hydrabad and Jaipur, was born.
8/30/1979Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'.
7/8/1971Krishnarao Arkgudun, versatile Kannad author, died.
2/7/2000Kamaluddin Ahmed, former APCC(I) president and four times Congress MP, joins the BJP.
3/31/1995Bombay beat Punjab in 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy.
2/13/1970Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48 people at a village 80-km from New Delhi.
9/25/1997BAI-IBC dispute resolved.