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Historical Event on 2/4/1973

India's then biggest commercial ship merchant fleet 88,000 DWT super tanker ""Jawaharlal Nehru"" commenced its services for the Nation.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/1/1956Indian state of Tripura becomes a territory.
1/9/1998Three RJD ministers in the Gujral Cabinet - Mr. Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, Capt. Jai Narayan Nishad and Mrs. Kanti Singh - resign.
1/9/1998Shahjahan, great mughal emperor of India, was born at Lahore.
4/4/1889Makhanlal Chaturvedi, famous Hindi poet, writer, Hindi litterateur and President of All India, was born in Babai village, Madhya Pradesh.
4/19/1993Sanjay Dutt, film star, was held under TADA for possessing an AK-56 rifle.
9/8/1991Hostage ONGC engineer T.S. Raju and mediator Bipul Mahanta, an Amnesty International member, killed by ULFA in Assam.
2/28/1930Sir Chandrasekhar V. Raman, Scientist, 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering ""Raman Effect"". He is also the first Indian to receive this honor in Physics, The Indian Nobel Laureates.
3/20/1926For the first time in the history of the competition, Scotland beats England for rugby's Calcutta Cup in London.
11/22/1718Durgadas Rathore, social reformer, died on the banks of the Sipra at Ujjain.
10/23/1985Rajiv Gandhi went to New York for the 40th anniversary of the UN.