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Historical Event on 4/7/1962
Umrigar slams 172* vs WI at Port-of-Spain in 248 minutes.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/20/1904 | Charles Freer Andrews came to India as a Christian Missionary and joined the staff of St. Stephen's College in Delhi. |
| 11/20/1907 | Railroad workers strike in India. |
| 1/12/1993 | Ramakanth Rath, well-known Oriya poet, gets the Saraswathi Samman of Rs.3 lakh. |
| 2/25/1987 | The Railway Minister announces introduction of 8 superfast trains from April 1. |
| 10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
| 12/4/1661 | Murad Baksh was executed on the charge of murdering Diwan Ali Nagi. |
| 12/16/2000 | Kalyan Banerjee becomes the first Indian to head the Rotary Foundation, one of the richest bodies of the Rotary International. |
| 8/1/1958 | Ramon Magsaysay Award for community leadership given to Acharya Bhave. |
| 10/10/1990 | Marxist extremists set fire to a crowded train in Andhra Pradesh killing more than 60. |
| 3/5/1990 | Government announces an interim relief of Rs. 360 crore to 5 lakh victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy. |
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