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Historical Event on 12/4/1898
Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan, Indian Scientist and Physicist-Philosopher, was born in Tamil Nadu.
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| 3/23/1942 | Japanese forces occupy Rangoon, Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean. |
| 10/30/1976 | Elections to the lower house of the Indian Parliament suspended again until early 1978. |
| 9/4/1987 | Roop Kanwar, an 18-year-old girl, commits Sati (burning herself in her husband's funeral pyre) in Deorala in Rajasthan. |
| 1/14/1994 | C. V. Waran, veteran freedom fighter and social worker, passed away. |
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