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Historical Event on 5/4/1959
Nehru rejects proposals that India and Pakistan resolve their differences and set up a common alliance against Communist China.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/12/1801 | William Carey fort was appointed the Professor of Bengali Language in fort at William College, Calcutta. |
| 7/3/1661 | Portugal gives Tanger & Bombay to English King Charles II. |
| 7/3/1661 | Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)-I, Portuguese navigator, arrived in India. He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to Calicut, Kerala with three vessels and was the first Westerner to sail to India from Europe. |
| 9/19/1911 | Boyi Bhimanna, great Hindi writer, poet and prolific author, was born at Mamidikuduru in AP. |
| 11/2/1972 | ICMR set up a chain of regional centres of National Nutrition Monitoring and 500 Indians seize Washington Bureaux in different parts of India. |
| 7/5/1984 | Indian Airlines airbus hijacked, lands in Lahore. |
| 6/16/1951 | Nehru opponents founded People's party at New Delhi. |
| 10/31/1984 | Rajiv Gandhi sworn in as Prime Minister of India by Gyani Zail Singh, President of India, at New Delhi. He held this office till December 1, 1989. |
| 10/31/1984 | Sultan Mehmud of Ghazni began his first real expedition to India by defeating the Hindu King Jaipal. He won Afghanisthan and Punjab in Peshawar battle. This was the first major Muslim conquest in India. |
| 1/22/1989 | DMK swept to power in Tamil Nadu Assembly election. |
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