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Historical Event on 04/07/1541
Father Francis Xavier, Spanish founder of the Jesuits, 35, and three friends set sail from Lisbon, Portugal for Goa. They became the first Roman Catholic missionaries to travel to India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/3/1978 | Origin of Saka Era (India). |
| 5/23/1993 | PM arrives in Tashkent. |
| 8/20/1995 | Indira Mahila Vikas Yojana launched. |
| 1/14/1998 | Prof. Amartya Kumar Sen, Economist, is sworn in new Master of the Trinity College. He is the first Asian to head a Cambridge College. |
| 11/3/1929 | Dr. Hemant Vishnu Inamdar, thesis writer and editor, was born. |
| 11/25/1975 | Chandulal Shah, film maker, passed away. |
| 2/21/1952 | The XV Indian Olympic Games in Madras. |
| 9/26/1923 | Dev Anand, film producer, director and actor, was born. |
| 3/22/1793 | Lord Cornwallis promulgated permanent settlement in Bengal and Bihar to fix the revenue amounts once and for all to be paid by the zamindars every year. |
| 1/25/1824 | Micheal Madhusudan Dutta, Bengali poet and dramatist, was born in Sagardari village of Jessore district. |
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