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Historical Event on 5/4/1989

Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay, famous Bengali litterateur, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/25/1990JD and BJP withdrew support to Rajasthan and Gujarat governments respectively.
2/8/1986Sister Alphonsa was beatified by his Holiness Pope John-ll at Kottayam. She was the first woman from India to be raised to this honour. (19-7-96).
6/3/1895Kavalam Madhava Panikkar, historian and Indian diplomat (Asia & Western Dominance), was born.
9/8/1990Mother Teresa re-elected head of Missionaries of Charity.
7/1/1992Central Railway started special train for ladies in Mumbai.
10/23/1985Rajiv Gandhi went to New York for the 40th anniversary of the UN.
10/22/1764The Battle of Buxar was fought between armies of Mir Qasim, the Nawab of Bengal; the Nawab of Awadh; and the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II and British East India Company led by Hector Munro.
10/24/1851First official telegraph line was opened between Calcutta and Daimond Harbour spanning 33.8 km.
2/17/1976Urban Ceilings Act comes into force.
1/22/1986Satwant Singh, Balbir Singh and Kehar Singh, all sikhs, were sentenced to death for the assassination of India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.