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Historical Event on 4/2/1996
Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) party registered and recognised.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/23/1996 | Amjad Ali Khan, sarod maestro, appointed UNICEF's national ambassador for children. |
| 2/17/1907 | Henry Olcott, co-founder (Theosophical Society-Madras), passed away. |
| 7/2/1928 | Nandkishor Bal, great Odia poet, passed away. |
| 10/12/1976 | Kumarnath Bagchi, famous Indian chemist, died. |
| 7/7/1962 | 94 people died in an Italian DC-8 air crash near Bombay. |
| 4/25/1982 | India's first telecast colour broadcasting started on Dordarshan. |
| 12/31/1998 | Air Chief Marshal Anil Yashwant Tipnis, PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He is the 18th Air Chief Marshal. |
| 10/10/1978 | Rohini Khadilkar, fifteen years old, became the first woman to win the national chess championship. Presently, she is the editor of a leading Marathi newspaper of Mumbai 'Nava Kaal'. |
| 7/17/1996 | Madras to be known as 'Chennai' henceforth. |
| 1/14/1761 | The third and last battle of Panipat, fought between the Marathas and the Afghan invader Ahmad Shah Abadli, started. The Marathas lost 28,000 soldiers and were virtually routed in North India thus ending the Maratha hegemony. |
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