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Historical Event on 4/5/1944

221 Advance Base Depots laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks and succeeded in safe evacuation of Ordnance stores to an alternate site.

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7/12/1949Dutch KLM Constellation crashes near Bombay, 45 die.
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2/19/1919Arvind Gokhle, great Marathi story writer, was born.
4/4/1994Ravi Naik, Goa CM, resigns.
2/21/1894Dr. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar, famous scientist, was born at Bhera, Punjab.
2/8/1897Dr. Zakir Hussain, third President of India and Educationist, was born in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
1/9/1935Harishankar Sharma, great educationist, was born at Jaipur.
5/17/1992R. Venkataraman, President, leaves for a six-day visit to China.
9/18/1967English was adopted the official language of Nagaland .