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Historical Event on 4/5/1987
The centenary of Bombay Fire Brigade was celebrated. (CIVIC).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/1/1947 | Partition of India into India and Pakistan. Power transferred. Lord Mountbatten becomes Governor General of India and Muhammed Ali Jinnah, Governor General of Pakistan. |
| 8/1/1932 | Meena Kumari, film actress, was born. |
| 2/1/1894 | Chitravshastri, Marathi dictionary creator, was born. |
| 11/12/1969 | Indira Gandhi, who was expelled from Congress for indiscipline during President elections, made a large split and formed her own Congress Party with Jagjivan Ram as President. The party is recognised as Congress (I). |
| 9/4/1947 | Gandhiji breaks fast. |
| 10/3/1906 | Govind Vinayak Devansthali, Sanskrit researcher, dictionary creator, professor and journalist, was born in Bombay. |
| 2/15/1997 | Conference of Inter-Parliamentary Union in New Delhi. |
| 8/15/1979 | Tukoji Holkar, a leader of Peshwa kingdom, dies. |
| 7/13/1912 | Shriman Narayan, educationist, administrator and diplomat, was born in Etawah, U.P. |
| 10/6/1949 | Jawaharlal Nehru laid the foundation stone of National Defence Academy in Kharakvasla near Pune. |
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