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Historical Event on 5/4/1957

Rai Chaudhary Hemchandra, great historian, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/19/1997Massive blowout in ONGC oil field at Devarapally, A.P.
5/31/1996J. H. Patel sworn in Karnataka CM.
1/18/1950Batubhai Umarwadia, father of Gujrati literature's English type and drama writer, passed away.
3/31/1904British slaughter hundreds of Tibetans.
6/27/1967First Indian made AVRO aircraft passenger Plane HS748 handed over to Indian Airlines.
5/12/1666Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj meet Aurangzeb and was arrested.
2/8/1994Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432.
10/28/1981Underground Metro Train Compartments were tested on trial basis at Calcutta.
5/3/1913Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, more generally known as Dada Saheb Phalke, was responsible for the production of India's first fully indigenous silent four-reel feature film 'Raja Harishchandra' which heralded the birth of the Indian film industry. The film had titles in Hindi and English and was released on May 3, 1913 at the Coronation Cinematograph in Bombay.
2/20/2000Supreme Court stays the Karnataka High Court's order quashing charges framed against the former Chief Minister, Mr. S. Bangarappa, and directs the trial court to proceed in the corruption case.