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Historical Event on 5/4/1989

Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay, famous Bengali litterateur, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/13/1943Chintamanrao Deshmukh was first Indian to be appointed Governor of Reserve Bank.
8/13/1943Pedro Alvaris, Portugese businessman, reached Calicut and established the first European factory in India.
10/14/199210 Indians sentenced to six years in jail in the UAE on account of staging a play in Sharjah.
12/14/1969Bishen Bedi takes 7-98 (career-best) v Australia at Calcutta.
12/31/1993Manipur placed under President's rule; Bangarappa launches Karnataka Congress Party.
9/20/1993First developmental launch of PSLV and Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1E) carried remote sensing payloads. Could not be placed in orbit.
3/16/1993Bomb blast in a multi-storey building in Calcutta kills 70 people.
1/29/1999Alok Kumar of Punjab defeated Devendra Joshi of Maharashtra at the IIT complex at New Delhi.
7/31/1940Udham Singh, fiery revolutionary, freedom fighter and social reformer, was hanged by the British Government in the Pantone Villa Jail, London.
5/15/1949Matsya Union formally merged with Greater Rajasthan.