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Historical Event on 1/4/1964
The First Diesel Engine came out of the Varanasi Diesel Engine Carshed.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/16/1996 | First one-day international in Canada played between India and Pakistan at Toronto. |
| 6/5/1996 | Kubernath Rai, well known writer, passed away. |
| 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'. |
| 8/22/1984 | R. Venkataraman was elected the Vice President of India (1984 -1987). |
| 3/10/1940 | Banwarilal Bhagwandas Purohit, famous leader of Vidarbha, was born. |
| 3/10/1940 | Guru Amardasji passed away. |
| 10/15/1987 | Times Eye Research Foundation was established in Amritsar, India. |
| 8/29/1947 | A conference of the Governor General and the two PMs of India and Pakistan with their military commanders to stop communal riots in the Punjab. |
| 1/17/1993 | LTTE commander Sadasivan Krishnakumar alias Kittu was killed in a ship blaze off Madras coast. |
| 1/17/1993 | Chandragupta I succeeded his father Ghatotkacha at Patliputra. He is known for establishing the Gupta dynasty. Gupta era begins. |
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