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Historical Event on 5/4/1959

Nehru rejects proposals that India and Pakistan resolve their differences and set up a common alliance against Communist China.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/29/1947Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar became the President of Constitution Council.
12/30/1865Rudyard Kipling, famous English litterateur and author (Jungle Book, Gunga Din-Nobel 1907), was born in Bombay.
11/1/1999Soli Sorbajee is re-appointed the Attorney General.
8/18/2000The Supreme Court rejects a petition filed by former Navy chief Vishnu Bhagwat challenging his dismissal from service and the consequent direction stripping him of the title Admiral.
2/18/2000Pandit Ravi Shankar is selected for this year's Subbarami Reddy Kalapeetham Foundation Award, a life-time achievement award, for his contribution to Indian music.
4/16/1930Rioting continues in India as British police fire on mob of 10,000.
6/18/1978The Karakoram Highway, linking Gilgit in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir with Sinkiang in China, is opened.
6/14/1997India expresses regret over ""inadvertent intrusion"" of IAF helicopter into Bangladesh territory.
4/8/1894Lifetime of Swami Chandrashekarendra(1894-1994), venerated Shankaracharya saint of Kanchi monastery in South India.
3/31/1913Foundation stone of 'Gateway of India' was laid by Sir George Sydneham Clerk.