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Historical Event on 6/4/1997
Defence Ministry denies Washington Post's report that India has deployed Prithvi missile on Punjab border with Pakistan.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/19/1992 | An all-time low turn out of about 30\% registered in the Punjab Assembly polls. |
| 8/7/1925 | Monkombu 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. |
| 2/6/1937 | Baldev Singh, Chahal campaigner, was born. |
| 4/10/1996 | Delhi High Court bans the import of toxic waste in India. |
| 6/29/1976 | Sandhya Chib, Miss India-Universe (1996), was born. |
| 7/11/1979 | The Lok Sabha commenced a four-day debate on the no-confidence motion against the 21-month-old Janata Government. |
| 1/24/1995 | 3,400 meter long tunnel at Barcem piercing through the Karmali Ghat in Canacona taluka on the Konkan railway route in Goa completed at an approximate cost of Rs. 50 million. |
| 12/29/1927 | Hakim Ajmal Khan, freedom fighter, litterateur and a true patriot, died. |
| 6/24/1990 | President R. Venkataraman issues notification formally constituting an Inter-State Council. |
| 6/15/1659 | Aurangzeb was declared as the Emperor of India at Red Fort Delhi. |
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