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Historical Event on 4/6/1664
Harkhishan Singh, Sikh Guru, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/12/1990 | Government of India announces a 15\% cut in oil consumption, exempting LPG and kerosene. |
| 8/13/1995 | Kashmiri separatists behead a kidnapped Norwegian tourist and threatened to kill other hostages unless India freed 15 militants at Srinagar. |
| 12/14/1953 | Vijay Amritraj, great Indian tennis player and actor (Octopussy), was born. |
| 10/1/1993 | The two helicopters along with the first batch of fifteen personnel were ferried out in an AN-12 from Delhi to Mogadishu. The two helicopters were provided by 111 HU. |
| 1/1/1998 | The Election Commission announces the poll schedule for the 12th Lok Sabha. The polling will be on February 16, 22, 28 and March 7. Simultaneously, elections are to be held for the Meghalaya, Tripura, Nagaland, Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh Assemblies. |
| 12/26/1985 | Rajiv Gandhi and Pakistan President Zia-ul-Haq meet in Delhi and agree not to attack nuclear plants in each other's country. |
| 9/10/1920 | Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was born at Hadagali in Karnataka. In 1945 he put forward the ""theory of estimation"" in statistics. His formulae and therorems, for instance the ""Cramer-Rao inequality"", ""The Fisher-Rao theorem"" and ""Rao-Black Wellistaion"" are now part of any standard textbook of statistics. For his significant contributions, Rao received the S. S. Bhatnagar Award, the Meghnad Saha Medal and the Guy medal. |
| 6/10/1908 | Mary Clubwala Jadhav, politician and social worker, was born. |
| 2/5/1992 | Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Dilip Vengsarkar. |
| 5/17/1993 | Ravi Naik, Goa CM, resigns; Dy. CM Wilfred D'Souza elected to succeed. |
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