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Historical Event on 4/1/1989

UN Peace-keeping Force arrives in Windhoek to prefare for independence of Namibia.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/4/1999Umesh Chandra, Assistant Inspector General of Police, shot dead by the PWG in Hyderabad.
11/1/2000T. R. Prasad was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He holds this office till date.
6/22/1994Law for the betterment of women introduced.
4/1/1878Calcutta Museum was opened for general public.
2/2/1964Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, social reformer and freedom fighter, passed away.
12/23/1990All India BMAC and VHP hand over theĀ historicalĀ and archaeological documents to support their claim to Home Ministry officials.
11/22/1915Mohandas Gandhi returns to India.
1/1/1892Mahadev Haribhai Desai, follower of Gandhiji, was born in Surat district.
1/18/1936Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), famous English writer and author, died in Burwash, England at 70. He was a young journalist in British India. He wrote in verses, stories, novels childen's stories some of these were ""The Jungle Book, Kim and Just-50 stories"" and was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 for 'Kim' (Indian based story).
10/20/1992Nirad C. Chauduri, 94, the Indian writer living in Oxford, made honorary Commander of the British Empire.