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Historical Event on 4/2/1970
Privy purses and special privileges of former Indian rulers abolished.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/4/1974 | Satyendra Nath Bose, a noted mathematician, professor and physicist, passed away at Calcutta. He contributed greatly to statictical mechanics, the electromagnetic properties of ionosphere, the therories of X-ray crystallography and thermoluminescence, and unified field theory. Bose instituted ""Planck's Law and the Hypothesis of Light Quana"" in 1924. |
| 12/19/1919 | Sunil Kumar Banerjee, cricket Test Umpire for 1 test from 1963-64, was born at Bengal. |
| 6/27/1966 | D. S. Joshi was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-12-1968. |
| 5/25/1915 | Mahatma Gandhi established Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad. |
| 3/8/1963 | Gursharan Singh Narainsingh, cricketer (Indian batsman played one Test 1989-90), was born in Amritsar. |
| 4/22/1958 | Admiral R. T. Katari was appointed as the first Indian Chief of the Naval Staff. |
| 12/21/1992 | BJP-sponsored no-trust motion against the Rao Government defeated 334-106 in the Lok Sabha; Vajpayee ends fast. |
| 2/15/2000 | K.R. Narayanan, President, presents Dada Saheb Phalke Award for 1998 to B.R. Chopra for his contribution to Indian cinema. |
| 3/4/1995 | Kakrapar nuclear power station's second unit located near Surat synchronised to the western grid after mandatory tests. |
| 11/16/2000 | The Government to reduce equity holding in nationalised banks from 51 per cent to 33 per cent. |
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