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Historical Event on 1/4/1889

Judge M. Patanjali Sastri, Chief Justice of India, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/26/1923Mukeshchandra Mathur, famous playback singer, was born.
1/15/1973Air Chief Marshal Pratap Chandra Lal, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, DFC. retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command.
9/1/1989Yasser Arafat chosen for the 1988 Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding.
10/14/1998Prof. Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. He became the sixth Indian, by birth or citizenship, to win a Nobel.
8/26/1927Second Radio Centre was started in Calcutta.
12/11/1998Poet Pradeep (Ramchandra Divedi) died at 1850 hrs today.
12/1/1993World AIDS day.
10/6/1935Jeevan D. Ghosh, cricket Test umpire from 1978-91, was born in Bengal. He has the distinction of having the longest umpiring career of 32 years in India.
3/4/1990Sunderlal Patwa (BJP) and D. Ramachandran (DMK) named CM's of Madhya Pradesh and Pondicherry respectively.
1/24/1952The first International Film Festival of India held in Bombay, this event had a great impact on Indian Cinema.