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Historical Event on 5/4/1995

The fourth ASLV-D4 blasts off from Sriharikota, successfully placing the SROSS-C2 satellite in orbit.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/20/1988The Constitution (62nd Amendment) Bill for reducing the voting age from 21 to 18 years receives Parliamentary approval.
12/10/1905Robert Koch received the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work on Tuberculosis.
11/27/1998India retains the Asia Cup tennis championship in Delhi beating Uzbekistan 2-1 in the final.
3/4/1996India and EU agree on a plan to boost trade ties.
8/28/1994Three medical officers of the Field Ambulance unit were killed when the Indian contingent was trying to stem the war in Somalia.
5/16/1998India rejects China's charges on N-tests.
12/12/1992The world's largest monolithic granite statue of Lord Buddha, weighing 350 tonnes, placed on the 'Rock of Gibraltar' in the midst of Hussain Sagar lake in Hyderabad.
7/31/18619,300 mm rainfall in July in Cherrapunji, Assam becomes a world record.
2/4/1990Ernakulam was declared the first totally literate district in India.
10/30/1933Dara Nadirsha Dotiwala, cricket Test umpire for 6 tests from 1981-88, was born in Mumbai.