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Historical Event on 4/5/1944

221 Advance Base Depots laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks and succeeded in safe evacuation of Ordnance stores to an alternate site.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/3/1978Dr. Subhas Mukhopadhyay claimed the credit of India's first and the birth of world's second test-tube baby Durga Agrawal, who was born in Belle Vue Nursing Home in Calcutta.
7/29/1999Bandh in Mumbai to protest against the verdict barring Bal Thackeray from voting and contesting any election till December 10, 2001.
1/16/1992Prices of steel and iron decontrolled.
7/29/1988Syed Modi, 28-year national badminton champion, was shot dead at K. D. Singh Stadium in Lucknow.
2/7/1954The present cres: the motto ""Shastra Se Shakti"" was adopted. In 1989, Hindi lettering of ""Shastra Se Shakti"" was adopted.
3/30/1990Constitution (64th) Amendment Bill to extend President's rule in Punjab collapses in Lok Sabha.
11/13/1953Richard Nixon, the US Vice President, arrives in New Delhi.
2/13/1861Colonel Bernard Irwin attacks & defeats hostile Chiricahua Indians.
7/22/1991New industrial policy for liberalisation of economies announced in Parliament.
10/12/1993RBI liberalises credit and monetary policy.