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Historical Event on 4/2/1942

Andaman Islands, U.S. Army Air Force Flying Fortresses, bomb the Japanese fleet.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/1/1950First Indigenous Steam Engine from Chitranjan Rail Factory railed out.
7/16/1909Aruna Asaf Ali, social worker and freedom fighter, was born at Kalka in Haryana.
7/3/1985Air Chief Marshal D A La Fontaine PVSM, AVSM, VM., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/July/1988.
10/17/1919The Khilafat Movement was launched under the leadership of Maulana Jauhar Ali, Maulana Shaukat Ali and Abdul Kalam Azad.
7/6/1992R. Janakiraman Committee estimates involvement of Rs. 3543 crore in the security scam.
10/28/1998The 1998 Swarna Jayanti Fellowship Award is presented to 11 young scientists.
1/16/1999Ritwick Bhattacharya (Delhi) and Mekhala Subedar (Maharashtra) won the men's and women's titles in the National squash championship in Calcutta.
6/4/1994Army successfully test-fires the short range surface-to-surface missile, 'Prithvi'.
10/26/1961Heavy fighting flared up between India and Communist China in their three-year-old dispute over border lines in the Himalayas. Each side accused the other of initiating the fighting that began along the Tibetan border early in October.
8/5/1939In the first case to be brought under Prohibition laws, a railroad passenger was today convicted of possessing a bottle of brandy in Bombay.