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Historical Event on 1/4/1906

Prince of Wales laid the foundation stone of Victoria Memorial Hall at Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/13/1992Security scam: assets of three SBI officials attached.
6/13/1992Guru Ramdas, Sikh Guru, established Amritsar city.
11/29/2000India strikes a counter-trade oil deal with Iraq as part of an effort to build a strategic relationship with Baghdad.
12/27/1901Gandhiji moves resolution on South Africa at Congress.
9/7/1993India and China sign border peace accord.
2/14/1994V. P. Singh elected JD Chief in place of S.R. Bommai who stepped down.
9/2/1998Nishant, the pilotless training aircraft developed by DRDO, is successfully flown from Chandipore.
4/10/1760Gerard George Clifford, head of East-Indian Company, passed away at the age of 75.
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.
1/9/1664Shivaji started Surat campaign and left the city after plundering the place.