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Historical Event on 12/4/1661
Murad Baksh was executed on the charge of murdering Diwan Ali Nagi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/1/1819 | William Carey, Ward and Marshman established the Serampore College in Bengal. |
| 6/24/1980 | Varahagiri Venkata Giri, former president of India, died at Madras. |
| 6/8/1948 | Malabar Princess', Air India's first international flight, takes off from Bombay to London via Cairo and Geneva. This was weekly air service was started between India to United Kingdom. |
| 5/11/1999 | Supreme Court confirms the death sentence on four of the 26 accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, reduces to life imprisonment the sentence on three others and acquits the remaining 19. |
| 8/13/1947 | Riots sweep Lahore in Punjab; mobs stone Gandhi's house. |
| 4/21/1992 | UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali visits New Delhi. |
| 1/20/1988 | Khan Abdul Gafar Khan, follower of Mahatma Gandhi, better known as Sarhadi Gandhi or Frointier Gandhi, passed away. |
| 2/17/1670 | Shivaji won SinghGarh Fort from Mughals. This victory was on the shoulders of Tanaji who was martyred in this attack. Shivaji proclaimed ""Garh Aalaa Pan Singh Gela"" which means that Fort was won but the Lion was lost. |
| 6/16/1992 | P. D. Dhhavle, former editor of daily newspaper `Maharashtra', passed away. |
| 4/22/1992 | IAF in response to a recommendation by Secretary General, the Security Council adopted resolution No. 751 (1992) by which it established UNOSOM for handling situation which had deteriorated to an extent where death and destruction forced hundreds of thousands of civilians to flee their homes and causing need for emergency humanitarian assistance. |
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