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Historical Event on 12/4/1661

Murad Baksh was executed on the charge of murdering Diwan Ali Nagi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/22/1942Harikrishna Kaul (Raja Pandit), administrator and Prime Minister of Jammu Kashmir and Patiyala, died.
1/22/1990FIR registered in Bofors kickbacks case.
12/21/1956The Hindu Adoption Sub-Act 1956 was accepted.
1/23/1999An Australian missionary, Graham Stewart Staines, and his two sons Philip and Timothy are burnt to death by miscreants near Manoharpur village in Orissa's Keonjhar district.
1/14/1993The Supreme Court absolves Railway Minister Jaffer Sharief of corruption charges in the wagon deal with Asea Brown Boveri.
6/13/1932Nirmalchandra Sen, great revolutionary, died.
8/7/1925Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.
10/6/1954Nehru declared the National Health Scheme for the entire country.
3/3/1967India signed the International Space Treaty in Moscow.
3/17/1992Suburban rail fare increase cut; 20\% hike in first class, second class A/C sleeper and chair car reduced to 15\%.