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Historical Event on 4/9/1984

Captain H.J. Singh of Indian Army crossed the Banihal Darsh with the help of Hand Glider and set a new record.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/29/1957The National Civil Defence College was founded at Nagpur as the Central Emergency Relief Training Institute (CERTI). It functions as the training wing of the Emergency Relief Organisation of the Government of India.
10/21/1959Chinese and Indian troops clash on Ladakh border.
10/19/1970First Indian-made MIG-21 handed over to the Air Force. Privy purses and privileges of former Indian rulers abolished.
5/29/1965Indian Everest team sets a world record by climbing the Everest for the fourth time.
9/13/1928Shridhar Pathak, prominent Hindi writer, passed away.
7/29/1901Rudyard Kipling, the renowned author of stories and poems about colonial India and an unofficial spokesman for the British Empire, joined the rising chorus of criticism in regard to Britain's conduct in the increasingly unpopular Boer War.
9/22/1891Gangopadhyay Taraknath, famous novelist in Bengal, passed away.
4/8/1894Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, famous novelist and writer of national song 'Vande Mataram', died at the age of 55. Some of his writings are 'Anandmath' and 'Kapal Kundala'.
4/5/1993K. Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy, Andhra Pradesh's CM, defeats TDP's Renuka Chowdhary by 31,611 votes in the Panyam Assembly election.
3/16/1977Sixth General Election of India begins.