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Historical Event on 4/6/1956

Dilip Balwant Vengsarkar, cricketer (prolific Indian batsman 1976-92),was born in Rajapur, Maharashtra. He has received Arjun Award (1981) and Padmashree (1987).

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/13/1905Sister Nivedita died.
9/6/1965Full scale warfare broke out all along the international border between West Pakistan and India. Pakistani troops advanced towards the Indian town of Akhnur in Kashmir and Pakistani paratroopers raided Punjab.
8/29/1947A conference of the Governor General and the two PMs of India and Pakistan with their military commanders to stop communal riots in the Punjab.
5/8/1995Prem Bhatia, journalist, passed away at 83.
2/8/1971Indira Congress wins the mid-term elections for Lok Sabha. Indira Gandhi becomes PM.
12/24/2000The Government re-instates Dr. R.S.Paroda as the Director-General of the ICAR.
7/7/1901J. Watsan Harod started a branch of Gramophone Company at Calcutta.
9/29/1708British East India Company and New East India company merged.
2/25/1993113 MPs arrested and Murali Manohar Joshi injured in police action.
4/30/1870Dadasaheb Phalke alias Dhundiraj Gobind Phalke was born at Trymbakeshwar near Nasik, Maharashtra. He is remembered as the 'Father of Indian Cinema'. He produced India's first feature Film, 'Raja Harishchandra' and founded Phalke & Co. at Bombay. He was a director, producer, writer, editor & laboratorian, portrait photographer and also a scene-painter.