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Historical Event on 9/4/1979
India need 438 to win v England, game ends at 8-429.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/28/1981 | Underground Metro Train Compartments were tested on trial basis at Calcutta. |
| 8/30/1903 | Bhagwati Charan Varma was born. |
| 5/29/1936 | Gandhi's eldest son creates a controversy as he converts to the Muslim faith. |
| 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. |
| 3/17/1957 | New Central Cabinet under J. L. Nehru sworn in. |
| 6/17/1991 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Rajiv Gandhi (Posthumous) (1944-1991). |
| 1/1/1969 | B. Sivaraman was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 30-11-1970. |
| 2/7/1985 | Uday Merchant, cricketer (brother of Vijay, prolific scorer), passed away. |
| 1/28/1877 | Pulin Bihari Das, revolutionary journalist, passed away. |
| 11/28/1993 | JRD Tata, 89, passed away in Geneva. |
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