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Historical Event on 6/4/1994
Army successfully test-fires the short range surface-to-surface missile, 'Prithvi'.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/9/1966 | Heroes of the 1942 movement were honoured at a rally in Red Fort. |
| 3/11/1990 | Darbarsingh, former Chief Minister of Punjab, passed away. |
| 12/5/2000 | Postal staff go on a nationwide indefinite strike which the Government termed as 'illegal'. |
| 6/3/1865 | George V, King of England (1910-36), was born. |
| 1/27/1901 | Tarkatirtha Laxmanshastri Joshi, the great thinker, master of Sanskrit and editor of Marathi Vishwakosh, was born. |
| 7/11/1997 | Ten persons were killed as police opened fire on Dalit mob which attacked vehicles in protest against desecration of Ambedkar bust in Ramabai Ambedkar Nagar in north-east Mumbai. |
| 4/3/1999 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2E), fifth satellite in INSAT-2 series, launched. This has multipurpose communication & meteorological capabilities. This is still in use. Launched by European launch vehicle Ariane, ISRO has leased eleven 36 MHz equivalent units of C-band capacity on board to INTELSAT organisation. |
| 3/28/1997 | India and Pakistan, represented by Salman Haider and Shamshad Ahmed, Foreign Secretaries, hold official talks on issues at New Delhi. |
| 11/22/1718 | Durgadas Rathore, social reformer, died on the banks of the Sipra at Ujjain. |
| 1/30/1959 | Uranium Metal Project started producing Uranium at Trombay, Mumbai. |
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