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Historical Event on 1/4/1958
Waverley John Anderson, Scottish viscount and Governor of Bengal, died at the age of 75.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/26/1921 | Nurul. S. Hasan, educationist and statesman, was born at Lucknow (U.P). |
| 6/7/1989 | Sheetal Pandya set up a world record at the age of 5 years. |
| 3/9/1997 | Bangladesh and Chakma refugee leaders sign a historic agreement for repatriation of the 50,000 refugees sheltered in six camps in Tripura for the past 11 years. |
| 5/26/1885 | Govindagraj (Ram Ganesh Gadkari), great Marathi playwright, comedy author and poet, was born. |
| 10/14/1998 | Prof. Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. He became the sixth Indian, by birth or citizenship, to win a Nobel. |
| 9/25/1999 | Eighth SAF Games inaugurated in Kathmandu. |
| 10/16/1896 | Govindas Seth, hindi litterateur and politician, was born. |
| 10/16/1896 | Humayun died at Delhi. Two days earlier he had slipped on the staircase of a library being constructed at the Old Fort. |
| 2/6/1932 | Veena Das, revolutionary freedom fighter, shot Stenly Jackson, Governor of Calcutta at the convocation ceremony of B.A. degree, but Jackson was afraid and bend down, thus the aim was missed. |
| 10/5/1993 | Geet Sethi retained World Billiards title by beating Mike Russel. |
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