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Historical Event on 4/6/1664
Abraham Shipmen died without taking charge of Bombay Islands from Portuguese.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/8/1999 | Farah Khan made it a double, adding the National ladies snooker title in Delhi. |
| 10/20/1991 | Manohar Phalke, famous union leader and MLA, died. |
| 6/17/1976 | Montreal Olympics opens. |
| 11/8/1831 | Edward R L Bulwer-Lytton was born. |
| 2/19/1895 | Munshi Newal Kishore, great social worker, educationist, nationalist, philanthropist and a pioneer industrialist, passed away at the age of 59. |
| 10/25/1989 | P. Baiju, Anand Shetty, Arjun Deviah, Ananda Natarajan set a record for India at the 4x100m relay meet in 40.14s at Islamabad. |
| 10/5/1907 | British MP Keir Hardie reported fomenting rebellion in India. |
| 4/16/1997 | Govt. orders foreign and domestic airlines to install air safety systems by the end of 1998. Aircraft with more than 30 seats that do not have Airborne Collision Avoidance System and transponders not to be allowed into Indian airpace from 1/1/99. |
| 3/24/1896 | Thiripad V. T. Bhatt, author and journalist, was born. |
| 3/24/1896 | 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. |
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