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Historical Event on 4/4/1984
Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma was the first Indian Astronaut to go in space from Baikanaur aboard Soviet Space Craft 'Soyuz 11' and revolved around the earth.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/30/1929 | The first inland Indian air mail left New Delhi this morning for Jodhpur, Hyderabad, and Karachi to connect at Karachi with the air service to London. |
| 8/1/1963 | Soviets offer India arms to block China. |
| 7/3/1745 | Ranoji Shinde died. |
| 12/10/1761 | Maharani Tarabai of Pune died at Satara.(9 or 10). |
| 6/8/1915 | Geeta Rahasya', written by Lokmanya Tilak, published. |
| 9/17/1885 | Keshav Sitaram Thakrey, journalist, social reformer and historian, was born. |
| 7/13/1974 | India's first one-day international was played vs England at Headingley. |
| 5/31/1981 | First developmental launch of SLV-3, Rohini (RS-D1) placed in orbit. It was used for conducting some remote sensing technology studies using a landmark sensor payload. |
| 12/11/1906 | Mysore Gururaj Vijayasarathi, cricket Test umpire for 13 tests from 1951-60, was born in Karnataka. |
| 5/12/1923 | Meera Mukherjee, great artist, was born. |
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