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Historical Event on 6/4/1997
Fourth Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1D), carring advanced remote sensing cameras launched by India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-1D), in service.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/2/2000 | Om Prakash Chautala, Indian National Lok Dal supremo, sworn in the 18th Chief Minister of Haryana. |
| 3/2/2000 | Saint Narhari Sonar, a poet-saint of the Varkari smanaj and goldsmith (sonar) from Maharashtra had taken Samadhi. His transition from a staunch Shaiva to a Vithoba-worshipping Varkari, after a miracle that makes him realize that Vithoba and Shiva are one and the same. |
| 2/19/1891 | Amrita Bazaar Patrika became a daily newspaper. |
| 9/27/1990 | Kabita Garari sets record for 10 Km W (Women) in 48.10 at Beijing Asian Games. |
| 12/8/1942 | Hemant Shamsunder Kanitkar, cricketer (batted in two Tests India v WI 1974), was born in Amravati, Maharashtra. |
| 8/15/1995 | P.V Narasimha Rao introduces the mid-day meal scheme for the primary school children under the Central Government Welfare Programme. |
| 6/25/1994 | Dinsha Pirosha Madan, Chief Justice of Supreme Court, died. |
| 11/9/1942 | Jami, last evergreen poet of Parsi language, died. |
| 12/25/1991 | Ajit Singh expelled from the JD. |
| 8/21/1995 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, noted physics scientist, died at the age of 84. He was one of the world's leading astro-physicists for his contributions to the study of stars. Chandrasekhar had received the highest award in Science--the Noble Prize in Physics in 1983. |
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