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Historical Event on 1/4/1940
Shrikant Sinkar, famous Marathi novelist, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/18/1858 | Bharatratna Dhondo Keshav Karve, great educationalist and social reformer, was born. |
| 8/4/1979 | Indian Airlines AVRO-748 crashes in to a hill near Bombay. |
| 12/8/1942 | Hemant Shamsunder Kanitkar, cricketer (batted in two Tests India v WI 1974), was born in Amravati, Maharashtra. |
| 2/24/1946 | Mrs. Kashibai and Mrs. Babbai Lakshman, freedom fighters, were shot dead by the police. |
| 7/5/1984 | Indian Airlines airbus hijacked, lands in Lahore. |
| 2/24/1922 | Kanwar Rai Singh, cricketer (batted at MCG Test for India 1948), was born in Darkati, Punjab. |
| 3/4/1895 | Surendra Singh Majithia, great industrialist, was born. |
| 2/3/1905 | Sir Padampat Singhania, great industrialist, was born at Kanpur. |
| 2/3/1905 | Turkish Armada retired.The arrival of a new Portuguese fleet. |
| 1/23/1993 | British PM John Major arrives in India on an official visit. |
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