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Historical Event on 3/4/1925
Jyotirindranath Tagore, great Bengali litterateur and poet, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/24/1921 | Rabindranath Tagore established ""Visva Bharati"" at Santiniketan with Brojendra Nath Seal as the chief guest. |
| 7/8/1928 | Eighteen died when an East Indian Railroad train was derailed after saboteurs removed part of the tracks. |
| 2/28/1937 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar discovers the white dwarf maximum mass limit. |
| 2/18/1975 | Syed Nazir Ali, cricketer (2 Tests for India, 4 wickets), passed away. |
| 12/29/1965 | First Indian-made tank 'Vijayanta' rolled off the Avadi Heavy Vehicles factory. |
| 4/15/1947 | Issues with Jinnah a joint appeal for communal peace. |
| 2/25/1903 | Judge Kailas Nath Wanchoo, chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born. |
| 11/19/1992 | M. Veerappa Moily selected to become the new CM of Karnataka. |
| 10/30/1966 | First meeting of the Shiv Sena at Shivaji Park. |
| 5/18/1973 | A powerful underground explosion rocked India's desert of Rajasthan today, making India the sixth nation in history to set off a nuclear device. The blast, which took place at a depth of 330 feet, was in the range of 10-15 kilotons, smaller than the bomb exploded by the US at Nagasaki in World War II. India is signatory to the 1963 test ban treaty, and thus was prohibited from exploding the device on land or in the air. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi claimed the purpose of the test was peaceful and said 'such explosions may have their use in mining operations'. |
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