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Historical Event on 4/8/1946
HMS Vengeance, sailed with 22 aircraft of No. 4 Sqn, halted at Singapore for re-fueling and set course for Iwakuni, a port of Kyushu island.
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| 8/10/1995 | Harishankar Parsai, famous Hindi litterateur, passed away. |
| 8/4/1845 | Pherozeshah Mehta, who published the first Hindi newspaper and one of the founders of Indian National Congress, was born in Bombay. |
| 2/2/1964 | Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, social reformer and freedom fighter, passed away. |
| 5/1/1902 | Tornodo hit Dhaka part of Bengal, claims 416 lives. |
| 3/25/1999 | Arathi Ponnappa,Former National tennis champion, called it quits from competitive tennis in Bangalore. |
| 4/9/1965 | After Indo-Pak conflict of 1965, the Raksha Medal, Samar Seva Star and some others were introduced. |
| 11/17/1994 | North Eastern Council decides to include Sikkim in the Council. |
| 1/18/1942 | Gandhiji restarts 'Harijan' and allied weeklies. |
| 5/28/1903 | Shantanu L. Kirloskar, great industrialist, was born at Sholapur (Maharashtra). |
| 11/1/1858 | Her Majesty Queen Victoria was no longer amused with the Company's loss of control, and India came directly under the Crown of 'Princes, Chiefs and People of India'. Britain Government took over administrative powers from East India Company to rule India. |
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